Plumbing built mostly after 1989
Leland began in the mid-1890s as a small settlement at the crossroads of what's now Village Road and the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, took its name in late 1897, and got its own post office on February 10, 1898, inside a corner of Gay's General Store. It stayed a small, largely unincorporated trading community for nearly a century before residents voted 427-to-42 to incorporate on September 12, 1989.
A newer pipe base than most of the Wilmington area
Because Leland's incorporation is so recent and its population growth — up 107.9% from 13,527 residents in 2010 to 28,126 in 2022 — has been concentrated in the decades since, most of the town's plumbing infrastructure is considerably newer than what a plumber typically finds in older Wilmington-area neighborhoods, with less legacy pipe to account for even in established Leland subdivisions.
Project paths
What to include when reaching out about a Leland property
Note how many fixtures are involved and their type, roughly how old the home and its plumbing are, any known supply-line material, and the symptom that prompted the call, whether that's pressure loss, a suspected leak, or a fixture that needs replacing.
Code basics for Leland's newer construction
Even newer construction in fast-growing Brunswick County communities like Leland has to meet North Carolina plumbing code requirements for backflow prevention and cross-connection control, particularly given the high water table typical of this part of the coastal plain.