Crosswinds Subdivision, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.61 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Crosswinds Subdivision
Crosswinds Subdivision serves about 92 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Chautauqua County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NY0622360. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Crosswinds Subdivision's lead record
That is down 1.73 ppb from 2.34 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crosswinds Subdivision is 2.68 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.61 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.34 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.24 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.68 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.95 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.78 ppb |
Against other North Carolina systems
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. Crosswinds Subdivision's 0.61 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in North Carolina and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Next steps for Huntersville, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Huntersville, NC may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Crosswinds Subdivision whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3850 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.