Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly, NC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly at a glance
Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly serves about 200 people through 29 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Buncombe County, North Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0111104; phone on file: 828-210-8479. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly is 0 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 37th percentile in North Carolina and the 15th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
28 other systems share Buncombe County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Asheville City Of | 157,431 | 0 (not detected) |
| Black Mountain, Town Of | 11,976 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodfin Sanitary Water And Sewer | 10,122 | 0 (not detected) |
| Weaverville, Town Of | 8,359 | 0 (not detected) |
| Biltmore Forest, Town Of | 1,356 | 0 (not detected) |
| Royal Gorge Water Utility | 950 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bent Creek Water System | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Montreat Water System | 798 | 4 ppb |
| Christmount Christian Assembly | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Pisgah Academy | 210 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly'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 Ymca-Blue Ridge Assembly 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.