Cove City, Town Of, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Cove City, Town Of serves about 440 people through 259 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Craven County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0425045; phone on file: 252-633-1595. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cove City, Town Of is 6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 1,925 North Carolina systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 5 are over 15 ppb right now and 75 have gone over at some point. Cove City, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 49th percentile in North Carolina and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
11 other systems share Craven County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cove City, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| New Bern, City Of | 37,884 | 0 (not detected) |
| Craven County Water System | 37,848 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | 17,144 | 0 (not detected) |
| Havelock Water System | 14,925 | 0 (not detected) |
| First Craven Sanitary District | 6,325 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairfield Harbour | 5,514 | 5 ppb |
| Town Of River Bend | 2,846 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vanceboro Water System | 1,864 | 3.4 ppb |
| Dover, Town Of | 425 | 0 (not detected) |
| Norris Mhp | 91 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Cove City, Town Of's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Cove City, Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.