Swepsonville, Town Of, NC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8 ppb (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 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.
Who runs the water here
Swepsonville, Town Of serves about 2,497 people through 1,308 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 surface water, in Alamance County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC3001005; phone on file: 336-578-5644. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 5 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Swepsonville, Town Of is 19 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 8 ppb |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2019 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 5 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. Swepsonville, Town Of's 8 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in North Carolina and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Alamance County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Swepsonville, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Burlington, City Of | 61,365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mebane, City Of | 20,212 | 0 (not detected) |
| Graham, City Of | 18,354 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elon, Town Of | 11,350 | 0 (not detected) |
| Haw River, Town Of | 2,650 | 0 (not detected) |
| Green Level, Town Of | 2,450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ossipee Town Of | 2,390 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Alamance | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Saxapahaw Utility Company | 880 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cane Creek S/D | 394 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Graham, 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 Swepsonville, Town Of 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.