Pink Hill, Town Of, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7 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 Pink Hill, Town Of
Pink Hill, Town Of serves about 950 people through 356 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 Lenoir County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0454020; phone on file: 252-568-3181. 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 7 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pink Hill, Town Of is 7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pink Hill, 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. Pink Hill, Town Of's 7 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in North Carolina and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lenoir County
7 other systems share Lenoir County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pink Hill, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kinston, City Of | 27,475 | 0 (not detected) |
| North Lenoir Water Corp | 15,494 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deep Run Water Corporation | 14,196 | 0 (not detected) |
| La Grange Water System | 3,167 | 0 (not detected) |
| Green Acres Mhp | 229 | 7 ppb |
| Jackson Heights Mhp | 107 | 0 (not detected) |
| Neuse Regional Wtr & Swr Auth | - | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pink Hill, 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 Pink Hill, 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.