Homestead S/D Water System, NC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2028). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Homestead S/D Water System
Homestead S/D Water System serves about 389 people through 153 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Catawba County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0118241; phone on file: 919-653-6999. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Homestead S/D Water System is 223 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 223 ppb over 15 |
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. Homestead S/D Water System's 5 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in North Carolina and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
78 other systems share Catawba County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Homestead S/D Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hickory City Of | 71,393 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newton, City Of | 18,407 | 0 (not detected) |
| Conover, City Of | 15,347 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maiden, Town Of | 5,563 | 0 (not detected) |
| Longview, Town Of | 5,244 | 0 (not detected) |
| Southeast Catawba County | 5,080 | 0 (not detected) |
| Claremont, City Of | 2,645 | 0 (not detected) |
| Catawba, Town Of | 1,617 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cross Country Campground Inc | 627 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pebble Bay | 587 | 10 ppb |
Next steps for Cary, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cary, 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 Homestead S/D Water System 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.