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Georgetown County, South Carolina

24 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 70,899 people in Georgetown County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

24
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
318
Total violations Lower third of counties
54.2%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
40.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (5 tested) Upper third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC043 · Georgetown County 24 sys · 318 viol · #735/3254

VIOL-HIGH · HEALTH-MID · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-SW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-HIGH 54.2% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 43.1% health
  • RANK-UPPER #735/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-MID 40.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 50%
  • SYS-SMALL 24 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Charleston County ( -0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Georgetown County ranks #735 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #19 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Georgetown County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 54.2% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 43.1% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 40.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #735 of 3,254 · #19 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Georgetown County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · lowest Dorchester · near Georgetown · this county Lee · highest 26.4% 53.3% 53.6% 54.1% 54.2% 54.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Gcwsd Waccamaw Neck (Sc2220010) 37,790 24 Detected
Georgetown City of (Sc2210001) 9,092 68 Detected
Georgetown Rural Comm WA (2220001) 4,941 4 Clean
Gcwsd Kilsock Water Sys (Sc2220002) 4,417 6 Clean
Andrews Town of (Sc2210003) 3,450 52 Clean
Gcwsd Carvers Bay (Sc2220013) 3,133 59 -
Browns Ferry Water Co (Sc2220003) 2,550 51 -
Gcwsd Garden City Point (Sc2220011) 1,790 6 -
Gcwsd Wedgefield Plantation (2220006) 1,132 5 -
Gcwsd Plantersville Sys (2220004) 1,079 11 -
Gcwsd Red Hill (2220007) 726 6 -
Ami Kids-Georgetown (2270906) 130 0 -
Wagon Wheel Farm (2260008) 129 0 -
Interfor (Sc2230002) 88 21 -
Hog Heaven Restaurant (2272003) 50 5 -
Primo-Food Lion 1583 (Sc2280020) 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 1389 (2280021) 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 1198 (Sc2280022) 50 0 -
Primo-Lowes Foods 9160 Ocean Hwy(2280026 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 2859 (Sc2280027) 50 0 -
Primo-Publix Pawleys Island (Sc2280028) 50 0 -
Primo-Walmart 3442 (Sc2280029) 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 0456 (2280017) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 0706 (2280018) 26 0 -

Compare beyond South Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Georgetown County

Cross-state counties nearest Georgetown County on flagged-system share (54.2%) and cumulative violation count (318). 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

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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

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