Keowee Key Utility System Inc (3750023), SC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
Keowee Key Utility System Inc (3750023) at a glance
Keowee Key Utility System Inc (3750023) serves about 4,108 people through 1,770 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Oconee County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC3750023; phone on file: 864-944-6700. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 3 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Keowee Key Utility System Inc (3750023) is 13 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 6 ppb |
| 2021 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 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. Keowee Key Utility System Inc (3750023)'s 3 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in South Carolina and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Oconee County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Keowee Key Utility System Inc (3750023). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Seneca City Of (Sc3710002) | 39,772 | 3 ppb |
| Pioneer Rural Water Dist (Sc3720001) | 16,929 | 0 (not detected) |
| Walhalla City Of (Sc3710004) | 16,010 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westminster City Of (Sc3710003) | 9,588 | 4 ppb |
| Salem Town Of (Sc3710001) | 6,444 | 0 (not detected) |
| View At The Pier The (Sc3770300) | 864 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chickasaw Point (Sc3750010) | 823 | 7 ppb |
| Harts Cove And Tory Pointe (Sc3750029) | 560 | 0 (not detected) |
| West Union Town Of (3710005) | 468 | 0 (not detected) |
| Keowee Bay S/D (Sc3750026) | 86 | 7 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Salem, 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 Keowee Key Utility System Inc (3750023) 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.