Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist, 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
Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist serves about 7,793 people through 3,068 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 groundwater, in Wayne County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0496045; phone on file: 919-731-2520. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist's lead record
That is down 4 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 71st percentile in North Carolina and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Wayne County
10 other systems share Wayne County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wayne Water Districts | 39,403 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goldsboro, City Of | 34,959 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wayne Water Districts Purchase | 16,302 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fork Township Sanitary District | 9,572 | 0 (not detected) |
| Seymour Johnson Afb | 6,875 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Olive, Town Of | 4,261 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fork Township Purchase | 3,286 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fremont, Town Of | 1,265 | 3.3 ppb |
| Walnut Creek Village | 950 | 10.3 ppb |
| Pikeville, Town Of | 896 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Goldsboro, NC
Look up your address in Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist'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 Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.