Morganton City Of, 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
Morganton City Of serves about 27,221 people through 10,717 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Burke County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0112015; phone on file: 828-438-5277. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Morganton City Of is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Morganton City Of 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. Morganton City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 77th percentile in North Carolina and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Burke County
16 other systems share Burke County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Morganton City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Valdese, Town Of | 13,571 | 0 (not detected) |
| Icard Township Water Corp | 7,821 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brentwood Water Association | 6,038 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brentwood-Jamestown Road | 6,035 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burke Co. Water-South | 5,207 | 0 (not detected) |
| Drexel Town Of | 3,302 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rutherford College Town Of | 2,083 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burke Co-Airport Rhodhiss | 559 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burke County Omara | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Shores S/D | 350 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Morganton City Of'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 Morganton City Of 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.