Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001), 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.
Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001) at a glance
Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001) serves about 5,746 people through 2,176 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Cherokee County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC1120001; phone on file: 864-461-2235. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001) is 0 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 | 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. Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 30th percentile in South Carolina and the 35th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Cherokee County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gaffney Bpw (Sc1110001) | 24,290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grassy Pond Water Co Inc (Sc1120002) | 9,895 | 0 (not detected) |
| Draytonville Water Dist (Sc1120003) | 5,456 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goucher Wd (1120004) | 5,426 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blacksburg Town Of (Sc1110002) | 3,963 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Chesnee, SC
Look up your address in Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001)'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 Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001) 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.