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Oconee County, South Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC073 · Oconee County 56 sys · 837 viol · #577/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 57.1% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 35.5% health
  • RANK-TOP #577/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 75%
  • SYS-MID 56 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Oconee County ranks #577 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #15 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Oconee County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 57.1% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 35.5% 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 #577 of 3,254 · #15 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Oconee County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · lowest Berkeley · near Florence · near Lee · highest 26.4% 57.1% 57.1% 57.8% 58.3% 58.8% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Seneca City of (Sc3710002) 37,478 17 Clean
Walhalla City of (Sc3710004) 18,511 27 Clean
Pioneer Rural Water Dist (Sc3720001) 17,121 17 Clean
Westminster City of (3710003) 8,085 149 Clean
Salem Town of (Sc3710001) 6,444 62 -
Keowee Key Utility System Inc (3750023) 4,108 15 Clean
Foxwood Hills (Sc3750025) 1,703 26 -
View at the Pier the (Sc3770300) 864 2 -
Chickasaw Point (Sc3750010) 823 50 -
Port Bass I (Sc3750002) 681 8 -
Harts Cove and Tory Pointe (Sc3750029) 560 0 -
West Union Town of (3710005) 468 16 -
Scprt-Oconee State Park (3770600) 393 4 -
Timber Lake I (Sc3750006) 283 16 -
Camp Chatuga (3770928) 200 7 -
Scprt-Devils Fork (Sc3770608) 196 1 -
Port Bass II (Sc3750012) 165 14 -
Diakonia Center (3770807) 155 29 -
Highway 11 Flea Market (Sc3770914) 150 0 -
Keowee Bay S/D (Sc3750026) 115 115 -
Timber Lake II (Sc3750007) 93 15 -
Scdnr-Walhalla Fish Hatchery (3770601) 85 19 -
Duke Construction Yard (Sc3730010) 80 0 -
Wild Water Ltd (Sc3770909) 68 7 -
Bay Ridge S/D (Sc3750027) 62 23 -
Mountain Rest Cabins C/G (3770809) 60 0 -
Whetstone Academy (Sc3770106) 55 0 -
Chattooga Sounds Campground (Sc3770812) 50 0 -
Chattooga River Resort (3770918) 50 0 -
Usfs Whetstone Horse Camp (Sc3770920) 45 0 -
Cherokee Creek Boys School (Sc3770002) 40 5 -
Isaqueena Point Util Sys (Sc3750008) 38 34 -
Turtlehead at Keowee S/D (Sc3750022) 32 39 -
Humble Pie Restaurant (Sc3772008) 30 0 -
Five Springs Water Company(sc3730021) 26 0 -
Scprt-Oconee Station (Sc3770659) 26 47 -
Nantahala Outdoor Center (Sc3770676) 26 0 -
Jocassee Outdoor Center (Sc3770927) 26 0 -
Tunnel Town Express (Sc3770930) 26 0 -
Mountain Rest Water System (3772006) 26 0 -
Brasstown Creek Gathering Pl (Sc3772009) 26 0 -
Cg Roxane Bottled Water (Sc3773001) 26 0 -
Wildwater Ltd Follow Up Well Sc3774004 26 8 -
Boondocks General Store (Sc3774005) 26 0 -
Primo - Publix 1671 (Sc3780006) 26 0 -
Duke Energy-Bad Creek Entrance (3730005) 25 0 -
Usfs Andrew Pickens Rs (Sc3770650) 25 27 -
Usfs Cherry Hill Rec Area (Sc3770651) 25 0 -
Jocassee RV Camp (Sc3770803) 25 10 -
Wind River Land and Timber Inc (3770921) 25 4 -

Compare beyond South Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Oconee County

Cross-state counties nearest Oconee County on flagged-system share (57.1%) and cumulative violation count (837). 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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