Sapphire Lakes Development, 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.
Who runs the water here
Sapphire Lakes Development serves about 724 people through 334 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Transylvania County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0188127; phone on file: 828-884-6859. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sapphire Lakes Development's lead record
That is down 4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sapphire Lakes Development is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Sapphire Lakes Development 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. Sapphire Lakes Development's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 56th percentile in North Carolina and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Transylvania County
16 other systems share Transylvania County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sapphire Lakes Development. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brevard, City Of | 11,336 | 0 (not detected) |
| Connestee Falls | 3,532 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sherwood Forest Water System | 680 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rosman, Town Of | 650 | 4 ppb |
| The Wilds Camp | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Knob Creek Water System | 445 | 2.1 ppb |
| Turkey Pen Mhp | 229 | 12 ppb |
| Ridge Haven Conference Center | 100 | 5.5 ppb |
| Waterford Place | 95 | 0 (not detected) |
| Indian Lakes Estate S/D | 75 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Sapphire Lakes Development'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 Sapphire Lakes Development 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.