Old Settlers Water System, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Old Settlers Water System
Old Settlers Water System serves about 2,677 people through 1,054 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 groundwater, in Onslow County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC7067008; phone on file: 910-937-7520. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Old Settlers Water System is 6 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Old Settlers Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 65th percentile in North Carolina and the 32nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
16 other systems share Onslow County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Old Settlers Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Onslow Wtr And Sewer Authority | 156,755 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jacksonville City Of | 49,093 | 0 (not detected) |
| Usmc Lejeune--Hadnot Point | 37,500 | 5 ppb |
| Usmc Lejeune--Holcomb Blvd | 17,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Usmc Lejeune--New River Air St | 11,500 | 4 ppb |
| Usmc Lejeune--Rifle Range | 3,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwest Onslow Water Assoc | 2,555 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lauradale S/D | 2,527 | 4 ppb |
| Raintree/Summersill Estates #2 | 1,539 | 0 (not detected) |
| Osprey Cove 2 | 475 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Jacksonville, NC
Look up your address in Old Settlers Water System'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 Old Settlers Water System 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.