Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso., NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso. at a glance
Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso. serves about 676 people through 338 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Macon County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC1057011; phone on file: 828-586-5588. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso.'s lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso. is 12 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
How Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso. 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. Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso.'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 54th percentile in North Carolina and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Macon County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin, Town Of | 9,992 | 3 ppb |
| Highlands, Town Of | 6,614 | 4 ppb |
| Cullasaja Club | 800 | 3 ppb |
| Highlands Falls Country Club | 650 | 10 ppb |
| Wildcat Cliffs Country Club | 445 | 0 (not detected) |
| Watauga Vista | 361 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverbend Estates | 323 | 5.5 ppb |
| Lbj Job Corps | 270 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cold Springs Poa | 165 | 4.5 ppb |
| King Mountain Club Water | 150 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso.'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 Mill Creek Estates Property Owners Asso. 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.