Six-0-Five Mhc, NC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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 Six-0-Five Mhc
Six-0-Five Mhc serves about 201 people through 96 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Louisa County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: VA2109675; phone on file: 828-733-5028. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Six-0-Five Mhc's lead record
That is down 2.37 ppb from 2.37 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Six-0-Five Mhc is 51.6 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, 4 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2.37 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 29.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 3.78 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.48 ppb |
| 2021 | 51.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 51.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
| 2017 | 10 ppb |
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. Six-0-Five Mhc's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 37th percentile in North Carolina and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Next steps for Banner Elk, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Banner Elk, 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 Six-0-Five Mhc 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.