Harkers Village S/D, NC
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.5 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Harkers Village S/D serves about 94 people through 39 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Carteret County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0416221; phone on file: 910-779-0794. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.6 ppb from 13.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Harkers Village S/D is 13.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (3 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 13.1 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 6.74 ppb |
| 2016 | 10.6 ppb over 10 |
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. Harkers Village S/D's 10.5 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in North Carolina and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
29 other systems share Carteret County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Harkers Village S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| West Carteret Water Corp | 19,512 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morehead City, Town Of | 18,846 | 0 (not detected) |
| Atlantic Beach, Town Of | 6,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newport Water System | 5,453 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bogue Banks Water Corporation | 4,995 | 4 ppb |
| Pine Knoll Shores | 4,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Beaufort, Town Of | 4,452 | 4.5 ppb |
| North River/Mill Creek Water Service Dis | 4,417 | 4 ppb |
| Harkers Island Sanitary Dist | 2,586 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brandywine Bay | 2,245 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Hampstead, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hampstead, 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 Harkers Village S/D 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.