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Pickens County, South Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC077 · Pickens County 46 sys · 545 viol · #464/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 73.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 32.1% health
  • RANK-TOP #464/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 1.1 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-MID 30.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 50%
  • SYS-MID 46 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Marlboro County (+ 1.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Pickens County ranks #464 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #13 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Pickens County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 73.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 32.1% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 30.0% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #464 of 3,254 · #13 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Pickens County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · lowest York · near Marlboro · near Lee · highest 26.4% 69.7% 70.8% 73.9% 75% 78.5% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Easley Combined Util (Sc3910002) 36,098 27 Clean
Clemson City of (Sc3910004) 17,896 10 Detected
Six Mile W/D (Sc3920002) 14,845 14 Clean
Pickens WTP (Sc3910001) 10,263 45 Clean
Southside W/D (3920010) 9,568 27 Clean
Dacusville-Cedar Rock Wt Co (Sc3920008) 8,700 4 Clean
Clemson University (Sc3910006) 8,320 29 Detected
Bethlehem-Roanoke W/D (Sc3920003) 6,334 2 Clean
Clemson Univ Fants Grove W/S (Sc3970112) 5,440 5 -
Central Town of (Sc3910005) 3,495 16 Detected
Liberty City of (Sc3910003) 3,349 38 Clean
Easley Central W/D #1 (Sc3920001) 3,283 19 -
Easley Central W/D #2 (Sc3920007) 3,234 4 -
Crawford Edge (Sc3970303) 552 3 -
Scprt-Table Rock Sp (3970607) 455 13 -
McCall Ra Camp (Sc3970675) 240 4 -
Table Rock Retreat and Conf Center 210 4 -
River Bluff S/D (Sc3950005) 133 9 -
College Place (Sc3970301) 114 0 -
Aunt Sue's Country Store 100 4 -
Rocky Bottom Camp-Blind (Sc3970677) 90 10 -
Heart Rdge Rtrt & Cult Ctr (Sc3970909) 85 0 -
Pumpkintown Store (Sc3970203) 82 69 -
Oolenoy Visitors Center (Sc3970910) 82 0 -
Rock Point HOA (Sc3950007) 70 15 -
Camp Hannon (Sc3970804) 60 14 -
Jacabb Util LLC-Aldersgate (Sc3950002) 39 34 -
Gauley Falls W/S (Sc3950004) 36 43 -
Table Rock Resort (Sc3970300) 33 7 -
Miracle Hill Girls (Sc3970111) 30 24 -
Ellenburg Campground LLC (Sc3970680) 30 8 -
Keowee Camp (Sc3970803) 30 2 -
Dollar General 19470 (Sc3974000) 26 0 -
Primo-Walmart 3222 (Sc3980002) 26 0 -
Primo-Walmart 0631 (Sc3980003) 26 0 -
Primo-Walmart 3191 (Sc3980004) 26 0 -
Primo-Publix 1379 (3980005) 26 0 -
Primo-Walmart 4445 (3980006) 26 0 -
Holly Spring Country Store (Sc3970901) 25 4 -
Pumpkintown Mountain (Sc3970907) 25 28 -
Cendys Cafe & Grocery (Sc3972000) 25 8 -
Blunose 12 Mile Beach (Sc3980007) 25 0 -
Blunose 12 Mile Boat Ramp(sc3980008) 25 0 -
Gauley Falls 2 4 5 6 (Sc3950008) 23 1 -
Cliffs at Keowee (Sc3950009) 23 1 -
Ellenburg Campgd-Tuckaway (Sc3970805) 12 0 -

Compare beyond South Carolina

Lower-flagged peers for Pickens County

Cross-state counties nearest Pickens County on flagged-system share (73.9%) and cumulative violation count (545). 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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