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Barnwell County, South Carolina

19 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 11,598 people in Barnwell County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

19
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
167
Total violations Lower third of counties
47.4%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (1 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC011 · Barnwell County 19 sys · 167 viol · #2236/3254

VIOL-HIGH · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-LOWER · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-HIGH 47.4% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 10.8% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2236/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 5.3 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 19 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Chester County (+ 5.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Barnwell County ranks #2,236 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #39 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Barnwell County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 47.4% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 10.8% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,236 of 3,254 · #39 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Barnwell County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · lowest Chester · near Dorchester · near Lee · highest 26.4% 47.4% 52.6% 53.3% 53.6% 54.1% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Barnwell County

Cross-state counties nearest Barnwell County on flagged-system share (47.4%) and cumulative violation count (167). 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).

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

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