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Spartanburg County, South Carolina

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet SC083 · Spartanburg County 29 sys · 154 viol · #220/3254

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

  • VIOL-HIGH 37.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 46.8% health
  • RANK-TOP #220/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 9.4 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-LOW 14.3% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 83%
  • SYS-SMALL 29 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Barnwell County (+ 9.4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Spartanburg County ranks #220 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #5 of 46 counties in South Carolina. See methodology · corpus placement.

Spartanburg County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 37.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 46.8% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 14.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #220 of 3,254 · #5 of 46 in South Carolina.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Spartanburg County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Horry · 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

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Lower-flagged peers for Spartanburg County

Cross-state counties nearest Spartanburg County on flagged-system share (37.9%) and cumulative violation count (154). 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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