Riverwalk Plantation, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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. 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.
Riverwalk Plantation at a glance
Riverwalk Plantation serves about 89 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0160379; phone on file: 704-643-9866. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 9 ppb from 11 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Riverwalk Plantation is 11 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 7 ppb |
| 2020 | 7 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
How Riverwalk Plantation 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. Riverwalk Plantation's 2 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in North Carolina and the 70th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
28 other systems share Mecklenburg County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Riverwalk Plantation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Water | 1,206,285 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lamplighter South-Danby | 3,297 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bradfield Farms S/D | 3,015 | 0 (not detected) |
| Park South S/D | 1,930 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood Green/Mcilwaine | 681 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stone Hollow S/D | 582 | 0 (not detected) |
| River Pointe Estates | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Parkway Crossing | 465 | 0 (not detected) |
| Larkhaven S/D | 416 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rocky Ridge S/D | 384 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for Charlotte, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Charlotte, 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 Riverwalk Plantation 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.