Roberts Trailer Park, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Roberts Trailer Park at a glance
Roberts Trailer Park serves about 50 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 Perry County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: OH6400812. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Roberts Trailer Park is 3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Roberts Trailer Park 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. Roberts Trailer Park's 1 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in North Carolina and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Durham, 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 Roberts Trailer Park 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.