Lauradale S/D, NC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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 Lauradale S/D
Lauradale S/D serves about 2,527 people through 995 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Onslow County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0467136; phone on file: 910-455-3743. 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 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lauradale S/D is 18 ppb across 17 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 14.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 6 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
How Lauradale S/D compares
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. Lauradale S/D's 4 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in North Carolina and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Onslow County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Lauradale S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Onslow Wtr And Sewer Authority | 156,755 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jacksonville City Of | 49,093 | 0 (not detected) |
| Usmc Lejeune--Hadnot Point | 37,500 | 5 ppb |
| Usmc Lejeune--Holcomb Blvd | 17,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Usmc Lejeune--New River Air St | 11,500 | 4 ppb |
| Usmc Lejeune--Rifle Range | 3,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old Settlers Water System | 2,677 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwest Onslow Water Assoc | 2,555 | 0 (not detected) |
| Raintree/Summersill Estates #2 | 1,539 | 0 (not detected) |
| Osprey Cove 2 | 475 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jacksonville, 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 Lauradale S/D whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2261 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.