Falcon Water System, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2028). 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.
Falcon Water System at a glance
Falcon Water System serves about 714 people through 266 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 surface water, in Cumberland County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0326035; phone on file: 910-980-1355. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Falcon Water System is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Falcon Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 55th percentile in North Carolina and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
29 other systems share Cumberland County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Falcon Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fayetteville Public Works Comm | 226,441 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old North Utilities Services/Ft Bragg | 65,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookwood Comm Wtr System | 15,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cliffdale West | 15,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Lake, Town Of | 11,725 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastover Sanitary District | 8,150 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookwood South/Fayetteville Pwc | 2,357 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linden, Town Of | 2,220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stedman, Town Of | 1,705 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wade, Town Of | 780 | 12 ppb |
Next steps for Falcon, NC
Look up your address in Falcon Water System'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 Falcon Water System 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.