Yemassee Town Of (Sc2510006), SC
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Yemassee Town Of (Sc2510006) serves about 2,202 people through 543 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 Hampton County, South Carolina. EPA system ID: SC2510006; phone on file: 803-943-1006. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Yemassee Town Of (Sc2510006) is 7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 7 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. Yemassee Town Of (Sc2510006)'s 1.8 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in South Carolina and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Hampton County
7 other systems share Hampton County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Yemassee Town Of (Sc2510006). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hampton Town Of (Sc2510001) | 3,467 | 2.1 ppb |
| Estill Town Of (Sc2510002) | 2,120 | 2 ppb |
| Varnville Town Of (Sc2510005) | 1,865 | 0.71 ppb |
| Brunson Town Of (Sc2510004) | 649 | 5.9 ppb |
| Gifford Town Of (Sc2510009) | 400 | 0.83 ppb |
| Furman Town Of (Sc2510007) | 238 | 1.2 ppb |
| Scotia Town Of (Sc2510008) | 161 | 0.3 ppb |
Next steps for Hampton, SC
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hampton, 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 Yemassee Town Of (Sc2510006) 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.