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Darlington County, South Carolina

6 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 69,227 people in Darlington County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

6
SDWIS water systems Smaller third of counties
155
Total violations Lower third of counties
66.7%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (4 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC031 · Darlington County 6 sys · 155 viol · #749/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 66.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 27.7% health
  • RANK-UPPER #749/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 6 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Darlington County ranks #749 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #20 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Darlington County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 66.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 27.7% is health-based share above the upper 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 #749 of 3,254 · #20 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Darlington County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · lowest Darlington · this county Marion · near Lee · highest 26.4% 64.7% 66.7% 66.7% 66.7% 66.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Darlington County W&sa (Sc1620001) 52,288 20 Clean
Hartsville City of (Sc1610003) 8,711 8 Clean
Darlington City of (Sc1610001) 7,142 38 Clean
Lamar Town of (Sc1610004) 1,034 89 Clean
Lakeview Club (Sc1670676) 26 0 -
Primo-Walmart (Sc1680002) 26 0 -

Compare beyond South Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Darlington County

Cross-state counties nearest Darlington County on flagged-system share (66.7%) and cumulative violation count (155). 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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