Linville Land Harbor, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2028). 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.
About Linville Land Harbor
Linville Land Harbor serves about 2,280 people through 1,404 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Avery County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0106104; phone on file: 828-733-8310. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Linville Land Harbor's lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Linville Land Harbor is 7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 4 ppb |
| 2025 | 7 ppb |
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. Linville Land Harbor's 4 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in North Carolina and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Avery County
17 other systems share Avery County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Linville Land Harbor. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sugar Mountain Utility | 3,226 | 0 (not detected) |
| Banner Elk, Town Of | 1,164 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newland, Town Of | 999 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elk River Club Development | 732 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linville Ridge | 710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Linville Resorts Inc | 499 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elk Park, Town Of | 495 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Ridge Village | 343 | 0 (not detected) |
| Charles A Cannon Memorial Hospital | 320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grandfather Golf & Country Clu | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Linville, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Linville, 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 Linville Land Harbor 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.