Saratoga Town Of, NC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2028). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Saratoga Town Of
Saratoga Town Of serves about 426 people through 329 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Wilson County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0498040; phone on file: 252-230-8115. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Saratoga Town Of is 372.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 372.5 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Saratoga Town Of's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 49th percentile in North Carolina and the 21st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Wilson County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Saratoga Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wilson, City Of | 50,332 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilson Co Southwest Water Dist | 5,730 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wilson Co Southeast Water Dist | 4,388 | 5 ppb |
| Black Creek, Town Of | 1,795 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elm City, Town Of | 1,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stantonsburg, Town Of | 1,393 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lucama, Town Of | 881 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sims, Town Of | 440 | 0 (not detected) |
| Longleaf Neuro-Medical Treatment Center | 200 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Lucama, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lucama, 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 Saratoga Town 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.