Graham, City Of, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Graham, City Of
Graham, City Of serves about 18,354 people through 7,235 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Alamance County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0201015; phone on file: 336-578-3264. 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 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Graham, City Of is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Graham, City 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. Graham, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 75th percentile in North Carolina and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Alamance County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Graham, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Burlington, City Of | 61,365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mebane, City Of | 20,212 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elon, Town Of | 11,350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Haw River, Town Of | 2,650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Swepsonville, Town Of | 2,497 | 8 ppb |
| Green Level, Town Of | 2,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ossipee Town Of | 2,390 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Alamance | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saxapahaw Utility Company | 880 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cane Creek S/D | 394 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Graham, NC
Look up your address in Graham, City Of'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 Graham, City 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. 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.