Beaufort County, South Carolina
SDWIS compliance plate
Sheet SC013 · Beaufort County 45 sys · 537 viol · #335/3254
VIOL-HIGH · HEALTH-MID · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL
- VIOL-HIGH 53.3% flagged
- HEALTH-MID 42.1% health
- RANK-TOP #335/3254
- PHOTO-FINISH ±0.2 pp
- PFAS-HIGH 60.0% detect
- SRC-SW SW lead 51%
- SYS-MID 45 systems
- BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields
Nearest flagged-rate peer: Dorchester County (+ 0.2 pp flagged-rate)
According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Beaufort County ranks #335 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #7 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.
Beaufort County standing, lower-flagged corpus third
Flagged-system rate 53.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 42.1% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 60.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #335 of 3,254 · #7 of 46 in South Carolina.
Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Beaufort County
Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Beaufort County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.
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Lower-flagged peers for Beaufort County
Cross-state counties nearest Beaufort County on flagged-system share (53.3%) and cumulative violation count (537). 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.
Similar violation load
Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).
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