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Cherokee County, South Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC021 · Cherokee County 8 sys · 164 viol · #909/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.5% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 73.8% health
  • RANK-UPPER #909/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 75%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Cherokee County ranks #909 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #24 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Cherokee 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 73.8% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #909 of 3,254 · #24 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Cherokee County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · lowest Anderson · 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
Gaffney Bpw (1110001) 24,290 39 Detected
Grassy Pond Water Co Inc (Sc1120002) 9,458 8 Detected
Draytonville Water Dist (Sc1120003) 5,347 18 Detected
Goucher WD (1120004) 5,323 12 Detected
Daniel Morgan Water District (1120001) 5,314 21 Detected
Blacksburg Town of (Sc1110002) 4,496 42 Detected
Spacious Skies Peach Haven (Sc1170800) 54 24 -
Dollar General Blacksburg (Sc1174001) 25 0 -

Compare beyond South Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Cherokee County

Cross-state counties nearest Cherokee County on flagged-system share (87.5%) and cumulative violation count (164). 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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