Lea Acres Water Co Inc, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Who runs the water here
Lea Acres Water Co Inc serves about 120 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pender County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0471113. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lea Acres Water Co Inc is 2 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
How Lea Acres Water Co Inc 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. Lea Acres Water Co Inc's 2 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in North Carolina and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Pender County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lea Acres Water Co Inc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pender County Utilities | 32,302 | 0 (not detected) |
| Surf City, Town Of | 9,730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burgaw, Town Of | 4,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Topsail Beach, Town Of | 3,495 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belvedere Plantation | 3,462 | 3 ppb |
| Maple Hill Water District | 968 | 0 (not detected) |
| Castle Bay S/D | 777 | 0 (not detected) |
| Olde Point S/D | 516 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Atkinson | 301 | 5.5 ppb |
| Hampstead Pines | 178 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Willard, 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 Lea Acres Water Co Inc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.