Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr, 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.
Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr at a glance
Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr serves about 14,937 people through 8,840 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 Vance County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0291010; phone on file: 252-430-9387. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr is 0 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 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr 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. Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr'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.
Other water systems in Vance County
6 other systems share Vance County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Vance Co Water District Phase 1 | 1,580 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vance Co Water District Phase 2 | 1,376 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vance County Water District - Kittrell | 1,282 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lynnbank Estates | 115 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunter`S Ridge S/D | 81 | 0 (not detected) |
| Edgewood Estates | 48 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Henderson, NC
Look up your address in Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr'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 Henderson-Kerr Lake Reg Wtr 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.