Doolie Meadows S/D, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.3 ppb (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. 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 Doolie Meadows S/D
Doolie Meadows S/D serves about 56 people through 22 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Iredell County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0149189; phone on file: 919-653-6999. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Doolie Meadows S/D is 4.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Doolie Meadows S/D's 4.3 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in North Carolina and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
54 other systems share Iredell County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Doolie Meadows S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mooresville Town Of | 54,455 | 0 (not detected) |
| Statesville, City Of | 30,843 | 0 (not detected) |
| Iredell Water Corporation | 29,370 | 0 (not detected) |
| Troutman, Town Of | 9,562 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harbour Point S/D | 4,031 | 0 (not detected) |
| Diamond Head S/D | 1,433 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mallard Head S/D | 869 | 0 (not detected) |
| Commodore Peninsula Wtr System | 610 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winding Forest/Bells Crossing S/D | 582 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Hampshires S/D | 561 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cary, 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 Doolie Meadows S/D 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.