Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001), SC
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001) serves about 44,866 people through 18,235 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 Laurens County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC3020001; phone on file: 864-682-6522. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001)'s lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001) is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.9 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. Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 37th percentile in South Carolina and the 40th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
4 other systems share Laurens County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Laurens Cpw (Sc3010001) | 13,902 | 2 ppb |
| Clinton City Of (Sc3010002) | 8,938 | 3 ppb |
| Sunset Pointe S/D (Sc3050013) | 60 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ranch Road Water (Sc3050008) | 40 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001)'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 Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001) 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.