Lake Summit-South Shore Lindsy, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Lake Summit-South Shore Lindsy at a glance
Lake Summit-South Shore Lindsy serves about 180 people through 74 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Henderson County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0145150; phone on file: 828-749-2581. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (3.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Summit-South Shore Lindsy is 3.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.5 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. Lake Summit-South Shore Lindsy's 2.5 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in North Carolina and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Henderson County
32 other systems share Henderson County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Summit-South Shore Lindsy. 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) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Saluda, 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 Summit-South Shore Lindsy 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.