Winnsboro Town Of (2010001), SC
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Winnsboro Town Of (2010001)
Winnsboro Town Of (2010001) serves about 10,391 people through 4,958 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 Fairfield County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC2010001; phone on file: 803-635-6364. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 6 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Winnsboro Town Of (2010001) is 12 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.9 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. Winnsboro Town Of (2010001)'s 12 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in South Carolina and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
6 other systems share Fairfield County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Winnsboro Town Of (2010001). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Midcounty Water Dist 2 (Sc2020004) | 3,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jenkinsville Water Company (Sc2020001) | 2,550 | 4 ppb |
| Mitford Water District (Sc2020005) | 1,878 | 0 (not detected) |
| Midcounty Water Dist 1 (2020002) | 1,487 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ridgeway Town Of (Sc2010002) | 950 | 3 ppb |
| Ridgeway Manor (Sc2070002) | 158 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Winnsboro, 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 Winnsboro Town Of (2010001) 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.