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Orangeburg County, South Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC075 · Orangeburg County 33 sys · 530 viol · #788/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 60.6% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 30.0% health
  • RANK-UPPER #788/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 70%
  • SYS-SMALL 33 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Orangeburg County ranks #788 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #21 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Orangeburg County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 60.6% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 30.0% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #788 of 3,254 · #21 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Orangeburg County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · lowest Jasper · near Orangeburg · this county Lee · highest 26.4% 58.3% 58.8% 60.5% 60.6% 62.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Orangeburg Dpu (Sc3810001) 46,896 23 Detected
Silver Springs W/D (Sc3820002) 2,660 42 -
Santee Town of (3810011) 2,388 9 -
Bull Swamp Rural Wtr Co (Sc3820001) 2,350 28 -
Holly Hill Town of (Sc3810002) 1,710 10 -
Elloree Water System (Sc3810003) 1,498 26 -
North Town of (Sc3810010) 1,378 35 -
Bowman Town of (Sc3810004) 1,274 41 -
Branchville Town of (3810005) 1,218 52 Clean
Norway Town of (3810008) 775 69 -
Springfield Town of (Sc3810009) 700 11 -
Rocks Pond Campground (Sc3870801) 620 6 -
Eutawville Town of (3810006) 555 34 -
Lower Calhoun (Sc0920003) 504 0 -
Orangeburg County (Sc3810012) 280 0 -
Amrize (Sc3830002) 210 5 -
Mill Creek Campground #1 (Sc3870853) 100 0 -
Bells Marina 1 (Sc3870418) 75 57 -
Lake Marion Res Marina (3870852) 50 16 -
Scotchman (Sc3870934) 50 1 -
Sunny Day RV Park 42 0 -
Lions Den (Sc3870935) 30 0 -
Blount's Landing (Sc3860007) 26 4 -
Primo-Walmart 0616 (3880004) 26 0 -
Primo-Walmart 3724 (3880006) 26 0 -
Lake Marion Regional Water Sys (3820003) 25 0 -
Wright Way Cdc - Vance (Sc3870116) 25 46 -
Slumberland Motel (Sc3870401) 25 0 -
Mill Creek Campground #2 (Sc3870854) 25 0 -
76 Gas Station (Sc3870921) 25 0 -
Walker & Son's Enterprises (3872012) 25 0 -
McCords Ferry at Lake Marion (Sc3850004) 20 0 -
Taylors Landing & Campground (Sc3860001) 15 15 -

Compare beyond South Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Orangeburg County

Cross-state counties nearest Orangeburg County on flagged-system share (60.6%) and cumulative violation count (530). 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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