Sturbridge Village, 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
Sturbridge Village serves about 53 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orange County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0368190; phone on file: 919-653-6999. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sturbridge Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sturbridge Village is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 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. Sturbridge Village's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in North Carolina and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Orange County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sturbridge Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orange Water & Sewer Authority | 86,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hillsborough, Town Of | 14,006 | 0 (not detected) |
| Orange-Alamance Water System | 9,223 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stoneridge Master | 681 | 0 (not detected) |
| Birchwood Mhp | 312 | 3 ppb |
| Robin`S Wood | 246 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maple Ridge Mhp | 216 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwood S/D | 208 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Trails S/D | 200 | 4.6 ppb |
| Whispering Pines | 183 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Cary, NC
Look up your address in Sturbridge Village'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 Sturbridge Village 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.