Reidsville, City Of, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Reidsville, City Of at a glance
Reidsville, City Of serves about 15,000 people through 6,723 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Rockingham County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0279020; phone on file: 336-349-1030. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Reidsville, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Reidsville, City Of is 0 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Reidsville, City Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 75th percentile in North Carolina and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Rockingham County
33 other systems share Rockingham County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Reidsville, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eden, City Of | 15,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dan River Water Inc | 12,573 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mayodan, Town Of | 2,493 | 0 (not detected) |
| Madison, Town Of | 2,116 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockingham County 158 Corridor | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stoneville, Town Of | 1,308 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockingham Co - 220 Corridor | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| River Run S/D | 360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pleasant Ridge Mhp | 269 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Village | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Reidsville, City Of'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 Reidsville, City 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.