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Anderson County, South Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC007 · Anderson County 40 sys · 1,334 viol · #330/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 9.7% health
  • RANK-TOP #330/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 88%
  • SYS-MID 40 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Sumter County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Anderson County ranks #330 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #6 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Anderson County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.5% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 9.7% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #330 of 3,254 · #6 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Anderson County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Anderson County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · lowest Sumter · near Allendale · near Lee · highest 26.4% 87.5% 87.5% 87.5% 87.5% 87.5% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Electric City Utilities (Sc0410012) 38,204 13 Detected
Powdersville Water District (Sc0420002) 34,960 6 Detected
Hammond W/D (Sc0420007) 21,193 12 Detected
West Anderson W/D (0420006) 17,430 14 Detected
Sandy Springs Water Co Inc (Sc0420003) 17,311 9 Detected
Big Creek W/S District (0420009) 13,647 12 Detected
Starr-Iva W/D (Sc0420005) 11,125 6 Detected
Broadway W&S District (Sc0420008) 9,586 6 Detected
Homeland Park W/D (Sc0420001) 7,328 13 Detected
Belton City of (Sc0410004) 6,762 61 Detected
Williamston Town of (0410010) 6,693 43 Detected
Pendleton Town of (Sc0410006) 5,597 3 Detected
Honea Path Town of (Sc0410003) 4,386 5 Detected
Highway 88 W/D (Sc0420004) 3,990 6 -
Belton-Honea Path WA (Sc0410011) 2,555 17 -
Iva Town of (Sc0410001) 1,874 37 -
Bgwc Nevitt Forest (Sc0450007) 966 9 -
Bgwc Town Creek (Sc0450003) 275 90 -
Bgwc Bridgewater (Sc0450033) 270 56 -
Bgwc Haynie Builders (Sc0450063) 270 56 -
Bgwc Hidden Lake (Sc0450072) 227 239 -
Bgwc Calhoun Acres (Sc0450014) 196 18 -
Bgwc Dobbins Estate (Sc0450058) 196 1 -
Bgwc Lakewood (Sc0450065) 183 475 -
Bgwc Belle Mead Acres (Sc0450016) 175 4 -
Bgwc Greenforest (Sc0450006) 173 4 -
Bgwc Hill and Dale (Sc0450036) 173 5 -
Bgwc Clearview (Sc0450026) 158 0 -
Belton Gun Club Inc (0470909) 156 4 -
Bgwc Oakwood Estates (0450076) 132 14 -
Bgwc Sherwood Forest (Sc0450029) 97 56 -
Bgwc Fieldcrest (Sc0450032) 65 7 -
Bgwc Surfside Heights (Sc0450066) 61 3 -
Bgwc Edgebrook (0450004) 48 3 -
Wendells Dipping Branch (Sc0472001) 26 20 -
Primo-Walmart 3192 (Sc0480014) 26 0 -
Primo-Walmart 4443 (Sc0480016) 26 0 -
Primo-Publix 563 (Sc0480017) 26 0 -
Anderson Regional Joint WS (Sc0420011) 25 7 -
Primo-Walmart 0644 (0480005) 25 0 -

Compare beyond South Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Anderson County

Cross-state counties nearest Anderson County on flagged-system share (87.5%) and cumulative violation count (1,334). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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