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Horry County, South Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC051 · Horry County 53 sys · 307 viol · #171/3254

VIOL-MID · HEALTH-MID · RANK-TOP · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-SW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-MID 26.4% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 43.0% health
  • RANK-TOP #171/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 11.5 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-HIGH 66.7% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 81%
  • SYS-MID 53 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Spartanburg County (+ 11.5 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Horry County ranks #171 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #3 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Horry County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 26.4% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 43.0% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 66.7% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #171 of 3,254 · #3 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Horry County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · this county · lowest Barnwell · near Beaufort · near 26.4% 37.9% 47.4% 52.6% 53.3% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Gsw&sa (Sc2620004) 247,550 19 Detected
Myrtle Beach City of (Sc2610001) 50,930 25 Detected
N Myrtle Beach City of (Sc2610011) 40,625 26 Detected
Conway City of (Sc2610008) 27,005 4 Detected
Bucksport Water Company (Sc2620003) 17,123 57 Clean
Conway Rural (Sc2620001) 12,740 14 Detected
Ocean Lakes Ltd (Sc2660048) 10,727 84 Detected
Lakewood Campground (Sc2660049) 4,415 20 Clean
Loris City of (Sc2610010) 3,428 18 Clean
Ocean Lakes Dispen Station 1 (2673002) 150 0 -
Ocean Lakes Dispensing Sta 2 (Sc2680157) 150 0 -
Pee Dee Farms Store (Sc2670916) 75 0 -
B&b Midland Market (2670925) 50 0 -
Primo-Kroger 026 (Sc2680164) 50 0 -
The Water Store (Sc2680181) 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 0912 (Sc2680183) 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 1556 (2680185) 50 0 -
Primo-Kroger 025 (Sc2680187) 50 0 -
Primo-Lowes Food 233 (Sc2680188) 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 2808 (Sc2680192) 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 2240 (Sc2680193) 50 0 -
Primo-Kroger 020 (Sc2680194) 50 0 -
Primo-Walmart 2887 (Sc2680199) 50 0 -
Primo-Lowes Foods (Sc2680200) 50 0 -
Primo-Lowes Foods S Myrtle Beach 2680201 50 0 -
Primo-Publix 1479 (2680202) 50 0 -
Primo-Publix 1510 (2680203) 50 0 -
Primo-Walmart 5923 (Sc2680204) 50 0 -
Primo-Publix 1524 (Sc2680205) 50 0 -
Primo-Walmart 2870 (Sc2680206) 50 0 -
Primo-Walmart 5367 (Sc2680207) 50 0 -
Primo-Publix 1568 (Sc2680208) 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 2248 50 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 2249 (Sc2680210) 50 0 -
Primo-Publix 1812 (Sc2680211) 50 0 -
Primo-Publix 1806 (Sc2680212) 50 0 -
Hardee by Evh (Sc2630008) 45 15 -
Budget Inn (Sc2670407) 45 2 -
Thompkins MHP (Sc2660045) 42 19 -
Primo-Walmart 0574 (Sc2680160) 26 0 -
Primo-Kroger 016 (Sc2680163) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 0281 (Sc2680168) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 1047 (2680169) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 1605 (2680171) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 1468 (2680172) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 0289 (2680174) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 0427 (2680176) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 1599 (2680177) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 0916 (2680178) 26 0 -
Primo-Food Lion 1595 (Sc2680179) 26 0 -

Compare beyond South Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Horry County

Cross-state counties nearest Horry County on flagged-system share (26.4%) and cumulative violation count (307). 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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