Lakeland Village 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.
About Lakeland Village S/D
Lakeland Village S/D serves about 180 people through 71 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 groundwater, in Columbus County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0424463; phone on file: 910-642-2828. 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 Lakeland Village 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) |
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. Lakeland Village S/D's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 35th percentile in North Carolina and the 14th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Columbus County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lakeland Village S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbus Co Water Districts Ii, Iii, V | 10,442 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whiteville, City Of | 5,426 | 4 ppb |
| Tabor City, Town Of | 3,277 | 0 (not detected) |
| Columbus County Water Dist Iv | 2,598 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Waccamaw, Town Of | 2,572 | 5 ppb |
| Chadbourn, Town Of | 2,370 | 5 ppb |
| Columbus Co Water District I | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fair Bluff, Town Of | 800 | 3.15 ppb |
| Bolton, Town Of | 668 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brunswick, Town Of | 495 | 3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Lakeland Village 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 Lakeland Village 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.