Nash County Water System Area 2, 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.
Nash County Water System Area 2 at a glance
Nash County Water System Area 2 serves about 701 people through 276 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Nash County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC4064010; phone on file: 252-210-3403. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nash County Water System Area 2 is 0 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
How Nash County Water System Area 2 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. Nash County Water System Area 2's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 55th 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.
Other water systems in Nash County
15 other systems share Nash County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nash County Water System Area 2. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mount, City Of | 55,891 | 0 (not detected) |
| Central Nash Water & Sewer | 7,675 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nashville, Town Of | 5,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sharpsburg, Town Of | 1,945 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northern Nash Water District | 1,694 | 0 (not detected) |
| Middlesex Water System | 1,389 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Hope, Town Of | 1,312 | 5.8 ppb |
| Bailey, Town Of | 566 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ransdell Forest S/D Mhp | 124 | 7 ppb |
| Cedar Lake Mhp | 124 | 4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Nash County Water System Area 2'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 Nash County Water System Area 2 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.