Gingercake Acres, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Gingercake Acres at a glance
Gingercake Acres serves about 270 people through 106 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Burke County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0112109. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Gingercake Acres's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gingercake Acres is 6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
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. Gingercake Acres's 2 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in North Carolina and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Burke County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gingercake Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Morganton City Of | 27,221 | 0 (not detected) |
| Valdese, Town Of | 13,571 | 0 (not detected) |
| Icard Township Water Corp | 7,821 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brentwood Water Association | 6,038 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brentwood-Jamestown Road | 6,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burke Co. Water-South | 5,207 | 0 (not detected) |
| Drexel Town Of | 3,302 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rutherford College Town Of | 2,083 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burke Co-Airport Rhodhiss | 559 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burke County Omara | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jonas Ridge, 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 Gingercake Acres 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.