Fork Township Purchase, 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.
Who runs the water here
Fork Township Purchase serves about 3,286 people through 1,294 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 Wayne County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC6096002; phone on file: 919-736-2551. 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 Fork Township Purchase is 0 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
How Fork Township Purchase 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. Fork Township Purchase's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 66th percentile in North Carolina and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Wayne County
10 other systems share Wayne County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fork Township Purchase. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wayne Water Districts | 39,403 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goldsboro, City Of | 34,959 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wayne Water Districts Purchase | 16,302 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fork Township Sanitary District | 9,572 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist | 7,793 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seymour Johnson Afb | 6,875 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Olive, Town Of | 4,261 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fremont, Town Of | 1,265 | 3.3 ppb |
| Walnut Creek Village | 950 | 10.3 ppb |
| Pikeville, Town Of | 896 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Fork Township Purchase'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 Fork Township Purchase 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.