Gaffney Bpw (Sc1110001), 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.
About Gaffney Bpw (Sc1110001)
Gaffney Bpw (Sc1110001) serves about 24,290 people through 11,666 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 Cherokee County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC1110001; phone on file: 864-861-6124. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
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 Gaffney Bpw (Sc1110001) is 0 ppb across 4 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) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other South Carolina systems
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. Gaffney Bpw (Sc1110001)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 36th percentile in South Carolina and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Cherokee County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gaffney Bpw (Sc1110001). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Grassy Pond Water Co Inc (Sc1120002) | 9,895 | 0 (not detected) |
| Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001) | 5,746 | 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 Gaffney, SC
Look up your address in Gaffney Bpw (Sc1110001)'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 Gaffney Bpw (Sc1110001) 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.