Fishing Creek Poa (Sc1550002), SC
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 34 ppb (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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Fishing Creek Poa (Sc1550002) at a glance
Fishing Creek Poa (Sc1550002) serves about 98 people through 70 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Colleton County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC1550002; phone on file: 843-566-4117. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 30 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fishing Creek Poa (Sc1550002) is 34 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 9 ppb |
How Fishing Creek Poa (Sc1550002) 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. Fishing Creek Poa (Sc1550002)'s 34 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in South Carolina and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Colleton County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fishing Creek Poa (Sc1550002). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Walterboro City Of (1510004) | 11,829 | 0.89 ppb |
| Edisto Beach Town Of (Sc1510006) | 5,848 | 1 ppb |
| Smoaks Town Of (Sc1510002) | 176 | 2.7 ppb |
| Lodge Town Of (Sc1510001) | 121 | 8 ppb |
| Williams Town Of (Sc1510003) | 103 | 0.36 ppb |
| Faith Cathedral Fellowship Inc (1570924) | 54 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Edisto Island, SC
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Fishing Creek Poa (Sc1550002) 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.