Estill Town Of (Sc2510002), SC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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
Estill Town Of (Sc2510002) serves about 2,120 people through 1,592 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 groundwater, in Hampton County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC2510002; phone on file: 803-625-3243. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.69 ppb from 0.31 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Estill Town Of (Sc2510002) is 18 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 ppb |
| 2025 | 0.31 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.44 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.74 ppb |
| 2023 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
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. Estill Town Of (Sc2510002)'s 2 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in South Carolina and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
7 other systems share Hampton County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Estill Town Of (Sc2510002). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hampton Town Of (Sc2510001) | 3,467 | 2.1 ppb |
| Yemassee Town Of (Sc2510006) | 2,202 | 1.8 ppb |
| Varnville Town Of (Sc2510005) | 1,865 | 0.71 ppb |
| Brunson Town Of (Sc2510004) | 649 | 5.9 ppb |
| Gifford Town Of (Sc2510009) | 400 | 0.83 ppb |
| Furman Town Of (Sc2510007) | 238 | 1.2 ppb |
| Scotia Town Of (Sc2510008) | 161 | 0.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Estill, 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 Estill Town Of (Sc2510002) 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.