Winding Forest/Bells Crossing S/D, 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
Winding Forest/Bells Crossing S/D serves about 582 people through 229 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Iredell County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC2049016; phone on file: 919-653-6999. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Winding Forest/Bells Crossing S/D'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 Winding Forest/Bells Crossing S/D is 10.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
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. Winding Forest/Bells Crossing S/D's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 53rd percentile in North Carolina and the 23rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Iredell County
54 other systems share Iredell County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Winding Forest/Bells Crossing S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mooresville Town Of | 54,455 | 0 (not detected) |
| Statesville, City Of | 30,843 | 0 (not detected) |
| Iredell Water Corporation | 29,370 | 0 (not detected) |
| Troutman, Town Of | 9,562 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harbour Point S/D | 4,031 | 0 (not detected) |
| Diamond Head S/D | 1,433 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mallard Head S/D | 869 | 0 (not detected) |
| Commodore Peninsula Wtr System | 610 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Hampshires S/D | 561 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harbor View S/D | 549 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Cary, NC
Look up your address in Winding Forest/Bells Crossing S/D'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 Winding Forest/Bells Crossing S/D 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.