Meadowcreek Estates, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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.
About Meadowcreek Estates
Meadowcreek Estates serves about 89 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rowan County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0180190; phone on file: 919-653-6999. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Meadowcreek Estates's lead record
That is up 2.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2016. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meadowcreek Estates is 2.6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.6 ppb |
| 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. Meadowcreek Estates's 2.6 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in North Carolina and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
38 other systems share Rowan County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meadowcreek Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kannapolis, City Of | 56,050 | 0 (not detected) |
| Salisbury-Rowan | 46,156 | 13 ppb |
| Landis, Town Of | 5,510 | 0 (not detected) |
| China Grove, Town Of | 4,895 | 15 ppb |
| East Spencer, Town Of | 1,550 | 0 (not detected) |
| Faith, Town Of | 1,316 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cleveland, Town Of | 872 | 3.8 ppb |
| Westwood Mhp & S/D | 638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northeast Rowan County Water System | 471 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fisherman`S Cove Water System | 359 | 11.8 ppb |
Next steps for Cary, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cary, 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 Meadowcreek Estates 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.