Pickens Water Treatment Plant Sc3910001, SC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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.
Who runs the water here
Pickens Water Treatment Plant Sc3910001 serves about 10,263 people through 4,633 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 Pickens County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC3910001; phone on file: 864-878-6421. 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 4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pickens Water Treatment Plant Sc3910001 is 4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.84 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. Pickens Water Treatment Plant Sc3910001's 4 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in South Carolina and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Pickens County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pickens Water Treatment Plant Sc3910001. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Easley Combined Util (Sc3910002) | 36,098 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clemson City Of (Sc3910004) | 17,896 | 5 ppb |
| Six Mile W/D (Sc3920002) | 14,845 | 2.11 ppb |
| Southside W/D (3920010) | 9,568 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dacusville-Cedar Rock Wt Co (Sc3920008) | 8,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clemson University (Sc3910006) | 8,320 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bethlehem-Roanoke W/D (Sc3920003) | 6,334 | 14 ppb |
| Liberty City Of (Sc3910003) | 3,594 | 0 (not detected) |
| Central Town Of (Sc3910005) | 3,495 | 5 ppb |
| Easley Central W/D #1 (Sc3920001) | 3,283 | 7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pickens, 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 Pickens Water Treatment Plant Sc3910001 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.