Sumter Co-Wedgefield-Stateburg Wd, SC
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.57 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Sumter Co-Wedgefield-Stateburg Wd at a glance
Sumter Co-Wedgefield-Stateburg Wd serves about 1,200 people through 574 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 Sumter County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC4320002; phone on file: 803-774-3855. 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 down 7.23 ppb from 7.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sumter Co-Wedgefield-Stateburg Wd is 16 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.57 ppb |
| 2022 | 7.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.39 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 7 ppb |
| 2019 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 6.1 ppb |
How Sumter Co-Wedgefield-Stateburg Wd compares
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. Sumter Co-Wedgefield-Stateburg Wd's 0.57 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in South Carolina and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sumter County
17 other systems share Sumter County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sumter Co-Wedgefield-Stateburg Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sumter City Of (Sc4310001) | 53,070 | 0.79 ppb |
| High Hills | 12,545 | 1.3 ppb |
| Shaw Afb (Sc4310501) | 9,000 | 0.54 ppb |
| Dalzell Water District (Sc4320001) | 3,912 | 2.1 ppb |
| Oswego Rural Water Co (Sc4320006) | 3,282 | 0.23 ppb |
| Bgwc Oakland Plantation (Sc4350006) | 1,180 | 0.35 ppb |
| Mayesville Town Of (Sc4310003) | 665 | 0.3 ppb |
| Shiloh Water System (Sc4320005) | 645 | 5.7 ppb |
| Pinewood Town Of (Sc4310002) | 455 | 1.4 ppb |
| Sumter-Wessex S/D (Sc4350016) | 412 | 0.98 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sumter, 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 Sumter Co-Wedgefield-Stateburg Wd whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3300 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.