Walnut Creek Village, NC
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10.3 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Walnut Creek Village
Walnut Creek Village serves about 950 people through 473 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 groundwater, in Wayne County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0496155; phone on file: 919-778-9687. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Walnut Creek Village's lead record
That is up 10.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Walnut Creek Village is 23 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2028 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 23 ppb over 15 |
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. Walnut Creek Village's 10.3 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in North Carolina and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Wayne County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Walnut Creek Village. 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) |
| Southern Wayne Sanitary Dist | 7,793 | 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 |
| Pikeville, Town Of | 896 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Goldsboro, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Goldsboro, 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 Walnut Creek 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.