Icard Township Water Corp, 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 Icard Township Water Corp
Icard Township Water Corp serves about 7,821 people through 3,560 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Burke County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0112060; phone on file: 828-397-6294. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Icard Township Water Corp'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 Icard Township Water Corp 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) |
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. Icard Township Water Corp's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 71st percentile in North Carolina and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Burke County
16 other systems share Burke County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Icard Township Water Corp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Morganton City Of | 27,221 | 0 (not detected) |
| Valdese, Town Of | 13,571 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brentwood Water Association | 6,038 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brentwood-Jamestown Road | 6,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burke Co. Water-South | 5,207 | 0 (not detected) |
| Drexel Town Of | 3,302 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rutherford College Town Of | 2,083 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burke Co-Airport Rhodhiss | 559 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burke County Omara | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Shores S/D | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Hildebran, NC
Look up your address in Icard Township Water Corp'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 Icard Township Water Corp 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.