Bgwc Country Oaks (Sc4650020), SC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Bgwc Country Oaks (Sc4650020) at a glance
Bgwc Country Oaks (Sc4650020) serves about 359 people through 92 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in York County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC4650020; phone on file: 803-699-2422. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bgwc Country Oaks (Sc4650020)'s lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bgwc Country Oaks (Sc4650020) is 40 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2024 | 40 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 36 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Bgwc Country Oaks (Sc4650020)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in South Carolina and the 20th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in York County
61 other systems share York County; 26 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bgwc Country Oaks (Sc4650020). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rock Hill City Of (Sc4610002) | 89,850 | 2 ppb |
| York County East Wd (Sc4620002) | 30,225 | 3 ppb |
| Fort Mill Town Of (Sc4610003) | 25,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| York County West Wd (Sc4620003) | 18,273 | 0 (not detected) |
| York City Of (Sc4610001) | 11,137 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tega Cay City Of (Sc4610008) | 10,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clover Town Of | 8,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverview Rural Cws (Sc4620001) | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hickory Grove Town Of (Sc4610004) | 654 | 2 ppb |
| Bgwc Foxwood (Sc4650008) | 575 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Columbia, SC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Columbia, 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 Bgwc Country Oaks (Sc4650020) 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.