Carolina Highlands Retire Park, SC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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 Carolina Highlands Retire Park
Carolina Highlands Retire Park serves about 45 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Macon County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: NC0157112; phone on file: 855-935-7368. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Carolina Highlands Retire Park's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Carolina Highlands Retire Park is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Carolina Highlands Retire Park's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in South Carolina and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Next steps for Fort Mill, SC
Look up your address in Carolina Highlands Retire Park'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 Carolina Highlands Retire Park 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.