Dover, 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.
About Dover, Town Of
Dover, Town Of serves about 425 people through 222 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: NC0425025; phone on file: 252-747-2450. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dover, Town Of is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
How Dover, Town Of compares
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. Dover, 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.
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Craven County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dover, 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 |
| Cove City, Town Of | 440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Norris Mhp | 91 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Dover, 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 Dover, 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.