Bgwc Stonegate (Sc4050014), SC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
About Bgwc Stonegate (Sc4050014)
Bgwc Stonegate (Sc4050014) serves about 352 people through 146 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Richland County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC4050014; 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 Stonegate (Sc4050014)'s lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bgwc Stonegate (Sc4050014) is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 4 ppb |
How Bgwc Stonegate (Sc4050014) 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. Bgwc Stonegate (Sc4050014)'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 Richland County
25 other systems share Richland County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bgwc Stonegate (Sc4050014). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia City Of (Sc4010001) | 354,068 | 5 ppb |
| Fort Jackson (Sc4010501) | 31,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hopkins Community Water System (4020002) | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bgwc Raintree Acres (Sc4050015) | 828 | 0 (not detected) |
| Eastover Town Of (Sc4010002) | 700 | 5 ppb |
| Bay Capital Water Works (Sc4050031) | 647 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bgwc Charleswood S/D (4050008) | 484 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bgwc Farrowwood Estates (Sc4050012) | 377 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bgwc Oakridge Hunt Club (Sc4050019) | 208 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bgwc Washington Heights (Sc4050013) | 190 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Bgwc Stonegate (Sc4050014)'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 Bgwc Stonegate (Sc4050014) 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.