Hickory Grove Town Of (Sc4610004), SC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (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. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Hickory Grove Town Of (Sc4610004) at a glance
Hickory Grove Town Of (Sc4610004) serves about 654 people through 284 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 York County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC4610004; phone on file: 803-925-2625. 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 2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hickory Grove Town Of (Sc4610004) is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 3 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. Hickory Grove Town Of (Sc4610004)'s 2 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in South Carolina and the 71st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
61 other systems share York County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hickory Grove Town Of (Sc4610004). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rock Hill City Of (Sc4610002) | 89,850 | 2 ppb |
| York County East Wd (Sc4620002) | 30,225 | 3 ppb |
| Fort Mill Town Of (Sc4610003) | 25,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| York County West Wd (Sc4620003) | 18,273 | 0 (not detected) |
| York City Of (Sc4610001) | 11,137 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tega Cay City Of (Sc4610008) | 10,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clover Town Of | 8,400 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverview Rural Cws (Sc4620001) | 2,200 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bgwc Foxwood (Sc4650008) | 575 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sharon Town Of (Sc4610005) | 573 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Hickory Grove, SC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hickory Grove, 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 Hickory Grove Town Of (Sc4610004) 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.