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Calhoun County, South Carolina

11 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 6,171 people in Calhoun County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

11
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
253
Total violations Lower third of counties
90.9%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
-
UCMR5 PFAS (none tested) No UCMR5 tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC017 · Calhoun County 11 sys · 253 viol · #2685/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 18.2% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2685/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Calhoun County ranks #2,685 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #44 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Calhoun County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 18.2% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Calhoun County . Population served ranks #2,685 of 3,254 · #44 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Calhoun County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · lowest Sumter · near Calhoun · this county Lee · highest 26.4% 87.5% 87.5% 88.9% 90.9% 90.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Calhoun County

Cross-state counties nearest Calhoun County on flagged-system share (90.9%) and cumulative violation count (253). 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.

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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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