Stokes Regional Water Corp, NC
Lead reported as not detected
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 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.
Stokes Regional Water Corp at a glance
Stokes Regional Water Corp serves about 3,530 people through 1,412 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Pitt County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0474060; phone on file: 252-757-7751. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stokes Regional Water Corp is 13 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other North Carolina systems
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. Stokes Regional Water Corp's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 67th percentile in North Carolina and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Pitt County
13 other systems share Pitt County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stokes Regional Water Corp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Greenville Utilities Comm | 103,140 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastern Pines Water Corp | 23,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bell Arthur Water Corp | 11,765 | 0 (not detected) |
| Winterville, Town Of | 10,462 | 0 (not detected) |
| Farmville, Town Of | 8,887 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ayden Town Of | 6,366 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grifton, Town Of | 2,982 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bethel, Town Of | 1,640 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fountain, Town Of | 427 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grimesland, Town Of | 332 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Stokes, NC
Look up your address in Stokes Regional Water Corp'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 Stokes Regional Water Corp 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.