Mcdowell House Rest Home, 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.
Who runs the water here
Mcdowell House Rest Home serves about 36 people through 3 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Mcdowell County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC1056009; phone on file: 828-652-5458. 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 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mcdowell House Rest Home is 6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 6 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. Mcdowell House Rest Home's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in North Carolina and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Mcdowell County
20 other systems share Mcdowell County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mcdowell House Rest Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marion, City Of | 9,362 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old Fort, Town Of | 1,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcdowell Co--Nebo | 902 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverside Mhp | 399 | 0 (not detected) |
| Black Bear Development | 343 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marion Moose Lodge | 320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodlawn Heights Water System | 315 | 0 (not detected) |
| Little Switzerland Comm Assoc | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deer Park Health & Rehab. | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marion Moose Lodge-Mountain | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Glen Alpine, NC
Look up your address in Mcdowell House Rest Home'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 Mcdowell House Rest Home 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.