Washburn Mhp, NC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Washburn Mhp serves about 83 people through 33 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rockingham County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0279125. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Washburn Mhp's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Washburn Mhp is 10 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 ppb |
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. Washburn Mhp's 10 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in North Carolina and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rockingham County
33 other systems share Rockingham County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Washburn Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eden, City Of | 15,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Reidsville, City Of | 15,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dan River Water Inc | 12,573 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mayodan, Town Of | 2,493 | 0 (not detected) |
| Madison, Town Of | 2,116 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockingham County 158 Corridor | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stoneville, Town Of | 1,308 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rockingham Co - 220 Corridor | 1,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| River Run S/D | 360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pleasant Ridge Mhp | 269 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Reidsville, NC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Reidsville, 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 Washburn Mhp 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.