Anderson Regional Joint Ws (Sc0420011), SC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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.
Anderson Regional Joint Ws (Sc0420011) at a glance
Anderson Regional Joint Ws (Sc0420011) serves about 25 people through 42 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Anderson County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC0420011; phone on file: 864-332-6534. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Anderson Regional Joint Ws (Sc0420011)'s lead record
That is up 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Anderson Regional Joint Ws (Sc0420011) is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
How Anderson Regional Joint Ws (Sc0420011) compares
Of the 553 South Carolina systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.73 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 47 have gone over at some point. Anderson Regional Joint Ws (Sc0420011)'s 4 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in South Carolina and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
33 other systems share Anderson County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Anderson Regional Joint Ws (Sc0420011). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Electric City Utilities (Sc0410012) | 38,204 | 0 (not detected) |
| Powdersville Water District (Sc0420002) | 34,960 | 5 ppb |
| Hammond W/D (Sc0420007) | 21,193 | 11 ppb |
| West Anderson W/D (0420006) | 17,430 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sandy Springs Water Co Inc (Sc0420003) | 17,311 | 3 ppb |
| Big Creek W/S District (0420009) | 13,647 | 0 (not detected) |
| Starr-Iva W/D (Sc0420005) | 11,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Broadway W&S District (Sc0420008) | 9,586 | 0 (not detected) |
| Homeland Park W/D (Sc0420001) | 7,328 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belton City Of (Sc0410004) | 6,762 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Anderson, SC 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 Anderson Regional Joint Ws (Sc0420011) 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.