Cayce City Of (Sc3210003), SC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Cayce City Of (Sc3210003) at a glance
Cayce City Of (Sc3210003) serves about 17,460 people through 8,224 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lexington County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC3210003; phone on file: 803-796-9020. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cayce City Of (Sc3210003)'s lead record
That is down 3 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cayce City Of (Sc3210003) is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
How Cayce City Of (Sc3210003) 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. Cayce City Of (Sc3210003)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 35th percentile in South Carolina and the 38th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Lexington County
68 other systems share Lexington County; 37 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cayce City Of (Sc3210003). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Joint Muni Wsc (Sc3220003) | 54,868 | 4 ppb |
| West Columbia City Of (Sc3210004) | 34,028 | 3 ppb |
| Lexington Town Of (3210001) | 24,284 | 4 ppb |
| Gilbert-Summit Wd (3220001) | 10,400 | 2 ppb |
| Gaston Rural Water Dist (Sc3220002) | 7,550 | 5 ppb |
| Bgwc I-20 (Sc3250012) | 7,435 | 4.7 ppb |
| Batesburg Leesville Dpw (Sc3210002) | 6,814 | 0 (not detected) |
| Amicks Ferry Wtr System (Sc3250077) | 3,937 | 0 (not detected) |
| Swansea Town Of (Sc3210006) | 1,923 | 13 ppb |
| Bgwc Glenn Village Ii (Sc3250058) | 1,430 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for West Columbia, SC
Look up your address in Cayce City Of (Sc3210003)'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 Cayce City Of (Sc3210003) 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.