Mountain Valley Living Center, 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.
Mountain Valley Living Center at a glance
Mountain Valley Living Center serves about 39 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Stokes County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0285467; phone on file: 336-467-2434. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
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 Mountain Valley Living Center is 9 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 9 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
Against other North Carolina systems
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. Mountain Valley Living Center'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.
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Stokes County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Mountain Valley Living Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| King, City Of | 23,370 | 3.38 ppb |
| Walnut Cove, Town Of | 2,210 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stokes County Water & Sewer Auth | 420 | 0 (not detected) |
| Danbury, Town Of | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Willow Creek S/D | 135 | 0 (not detected) |
| Country Living Apts | 66 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Mountain Valley Living Center'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 Mountain Valley Living Center whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1360 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.