Neighbor`S Walk S/D, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.64 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Neighbor`S Walk S/D serves about 60 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Johnston County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC4051014; phone on file: 919-653-6999. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 8.64 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Neighbor`S Walk S/D is 8.64 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 8.64 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Neighbor`S Walk S/D 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. Neighbor`S Walk S/D's 8.64 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in North Carolina and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Johnston County
46 other systems share Johnston County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Neighbor`S Walk S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Johnston Co-West | 99,027 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clayton, Town Of | 30,876 | 0 (not detected) |
| Johnston Co-East | 25,212 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smithfield, Town Of | 12,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Flowers Plantation | 12,809 | 0 (not detected) |
| Selma, Town Of | 6,190 | 0 (not detected) |
| Benson, Town Of | 4,802 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Clayton - North | 4,703 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Level, Town Of | 2,413 | 1.4 ppb |
| Four Oaks, Town Of | 2,302 | 3 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 Neighbor`S Walk S/D 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.