Faith, Town Of, NC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Faith, Town Of serves about 1,316 people through 518 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Rowan County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0180055; phone on file: 704-279-7500. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 26 ppb from 26 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Faith, Town Of is 26 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 26 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
How Faith, 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. Faith, Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 60th percentile in North Carolina and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Rowan County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Faith, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kannapolis, City Of | 56,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| Salisbury-Rowan | 46,156 | 13 ppb |
| Landis, Town Of | 5,510 | 0 (not detected) |
| China Grove, Town Of | 4,895 | 15 ppb |
| East Spencer, Town Of | 1,550 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cleveland, Town Of | 872 | 3.8 ppb |
| Westwood Mhp & S/D | 638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northeast Rowan County Water System | 471 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fisherman`S Cove Water System | 359 | 11.8 ppb |
| Edgewood S/D | 259 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Faith, 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 Faith, 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.