Scotland Co Water - North, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Scotland Co Water - North serves about 1,219 people through 480 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Scotland County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0383030; phone on file: 910-291-1716. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Scotland Co Water - North's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Scotland Co Water - North is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Scotland Co Water - North 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. Scotland Co Water - North's 4 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in North Carolina and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Scotland County
7 other systems share Scotland County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Scotland Co Water - North. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Laurinburg, City Of | 18,288 | 0 (not detected) |
| Scotland Co Water-South | 1,905 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wagram, Town Of | 965 | 0 (not detected) |
| Scotland Co Water - Gillis Hill | 965 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gibson, Town Of | 589 | 0 (not detected) |
| Scotland Co Water - Barnes Bridge | 584 | 0 (not detected) |
| Scotland Co Water - Malloy Rd | 330 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Laurinburg, 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 Scotland Co Water - North 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.