Sampson Co Wtr Dist Ii - Plainview, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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 Sampson Co Wtr Dist Ii - Plainview
Sampson Co Wtr Dist Ii - Plainview serves about 3,725 people through 1,490 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Sampson County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC5082022; phone on file: 910-592-0188. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sampson Co Wtr Dist Ii - Plainview is 0 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. Sampson Co Wtr Dist Ii - Plainview's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 67th percentile in North Carolina and the 34th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Sampson County
15 other systems share Sampson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sampson Co Wtr Dist Ii - Plainview. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sampson Co Wtr Dist Ii | 12,895 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clinton, City Of | 11,145 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harrells Water Corp | 1,642 | 0 (not detected) |
| Salemburg, Town Of | 1,637 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roseboro, Town Of | 1,278 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garland, Town Of | 948 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newton Grove, Town Of | 913 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sampson Co Wtr Dist I - Airport | 688 | 0 (not detected) |
| Autryville, Town Of | 527 | 0 (not detected) |
| Turkey, Town Of | 352 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Clinton, NC
Look up your address in Sampson Co Wtr Dist Ii - Plainview'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 Sampson Co Wtr Dist Ii - Plainview 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.