Bowman Town Of (Sc3810004), SC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Who runs the water here
Bowman Town Of (Sc3810004) serves about 1,274 people through 499 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC3810004; phone on file: 803-829-2666. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bowman Town Of (Sc3810004)'s lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (2.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bowman Town Of (Sc3810004) is 40 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 10 ppb |
| 2018 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 40 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 8.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 25 ppb over 15 |
Against other South Carolina systems
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. Bowman Town Of (Sc3810004)'s 2 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in South Carolina and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Orangeburg County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bowman Town Of (Sc3810004). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orangeburg Dpu (Sc3810001) | 47,463 | 0.66 ppb |
| Silver Springs W/D (Sc3820002) | 2,660 | 0.98 ppb |
| Santee Town Of (Sc3810011) | 2,388 | 0.26 ppb |
| Bull Swamp Rural Water Co | 2,350 | 1.6 ppb |
| Holly Hill Town Of (Sc3810002) | 1,710 | 1.7 ppb |
| Elloree Water System (Sc3810003) | 1,498 | 1.2 ppb |
| North Town Of (Sc3810010) | 1,378 | 5.3 ppb |
| Branchville Town Of (3810005) | 1,218 | 0.73 ppb |
| Norway Town Of (3810008) | 843 | 1.5 ppb |
| Springfield Town Of (Sc3810009) | 700 | 3.5 ppb |
Next steps for Bowman, SC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bowman, 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 Bowman Town Of (Sc3810004) 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.