Lake Lure, Town Of, NC
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 15 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Lake Lure, Town Of at a glance
Lake Lure, Town Of serves about 1,176 people through 463 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Rutherford County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0181020; phone on file: 828-772-6134. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Lure, Town Of is 15 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 8 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 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. Lake Lure, Town Of's 15 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in North Carolina and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Rutherford County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Lake Lure, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Forest City, Town Of | 21,521 | 0 (not detected) |
| Broad River Water Authority | 19,136 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ellenboro Town Of | 2,322 | 0 (not detected) |
| Concord Comm Water System | 1,867 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairfield Mountains No 1 | 1,798 | 3.9 ppb |
| Bostic, Town Of | 953 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairfield Mtns-Apple Valley | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Lure Village Resort | 226 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bridges S/D | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holly Hills S/D | 122 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lake Lure, 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 Lake Lure, Town Of 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.