Pinebrook Subdivision, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Pinebrook Subdivision
Pinebrook Subdivision serves about 25 people through 11 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Carroll County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: VA1035600; phone on file: 919-653-6999. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Pinebrook Subdivision's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinebrook Subdivision is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
How Pinebrook Subdivision 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. Pinebrook Subdivision's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 1st percentile in North Carolina and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
1 other system shares Carroll County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinebrook Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brandywine Estates | 25 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Cary, NC
Look up your address in Pinebrook Subdivision'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 Pinebrook Subdivision 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.