Holly Tree S/D, 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.
Who runs the water here
Holly Tree S/D serves about 95 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Henderson County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0145157; phone on file: 828-697-0063. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2016 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Holly Tree S/D is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Holly Tree S/D 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. Holly Tree S/D's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in North Carolina and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
32 other systems share Henderson County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Holly Tree 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) |
| Fox Ridge S/D | 457 | 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) |
Next steps for Hendersonville, NC
Look up your address in Holly Tree 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 Holly Tree 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.