Fox Ridge S/D, NC
Lead reported as not detected
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 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
Fox Ridge S/D serves about 457 people through 180 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Henderson County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0145144; phone on file: 919-653-6999. 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 3.4 ppb from 3.4 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fox Ridge S/D is 3.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2025 | 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. Fox Ridge S/D's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 50th percentile in North Carolina and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Henderson County
32 other systems share Henderson County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fox Ridge S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hendersonville, City Of | 79,278 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fletcher Academy Inc | 790 | 0 (not detected) |
| High Vista Estates | 775 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cinnamon Woods | 288 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hoopers Valley Estates | 220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rambling Ridge S/D | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodhaven S/D | 198 | 4 ppb |
| Maple Hills Mhp | 185 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Oak Village | 185 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Summit-South Shore Lindsy | 180 | 2.5 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Fox Ridge S/D'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 Fox Ridge S/D whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1900 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.