Lake Moultrie Regional Ws (Sc0820008), SC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.33 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. 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.
Lake Moultrie Regional Ws (Sc0820008) at a glance
Lake Moultrie Regional Ws (Sc0820008) serves about 25 people through 14 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws surface water, in Berkeley County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC0820008; phone on file: 843-761-8000. 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 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Moultrie Regional Ws (Sc0820008) is 0.33 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.33 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0.06 ppb |
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. Lake Moultrie Regional Ws (Sc0820008)'s 0.33 ppb sits at the 42nd percentile in South Carolina and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Berkeley County
12 other systems share Berkeley County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Moultrie Regional Ws (Sc0820008). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bcwsa Sangaree W/D (0820002) | 95,345 | 0.52 ppb |
| Goose Creek City Of (Sc0810004) | 43,744 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bcwsa East Cooper (Sc0820009) | 12,933 | 0.7 ppb |
| Moncks Corner City Of | 8,956 | 0.64 ppb |
| Jamestown Town Of (Sc0810003) | 800 | 1.2 ppb |
| Macdougall Correctional Inst (Sc0870050) | 790 | 1.6 ppb |
| Bcwsa Sineath Mhp (0850018) | 594 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bcwsa Lake Moultrie Estates (0820004) | 156 | 0.5 ppb |
| Butlers Mhp (Sc0860063) | 77 | 3.2 ppb |
| Sandy Run Mhp (Sc0860037) | 41 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Moncks Corner, 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 Lake Moultrie Regional Ws (Sc0820008) 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.