Pine Level, Town Of, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 ppb (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. 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.
About Pine Level, Town Of
Pine Level, Town Of serves about 2,413 people through 950 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 Johnston County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0351040; phone on file: 919-965-2284. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Level, Town Of is 1.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pine Level, Town 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. Pine Level, Town Of's 1.4 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in North Carolina and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
46 other systems share Johnston County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine Level, Town Of. 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) |
| Four Oaks, Town Of | 2,302 | 3 ppb |
| Kenly, Town Of | 2,301 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Pine Level, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pine Level, 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 Pine Level, Town 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.