Community Water System · PWS SC0150014
Bgwc Purdy Shores (0150014)
Operator location Elgin, South Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 268 people served; 780 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 268
- People served (this PWS)
- 780
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 142
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bgwc Purdy Shores (0150014) standing, high SDWIS violation third
268 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 18% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Bgwc Purdy Shores (0150014) sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (780), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (268; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 18% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 780
- Total EPA violations on record
- 18%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 268
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 107
- County
- Abbeville
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 142
- Monitoring Violations
- 631
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 93 | 2009 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 49 | 2009 |
| Nitrate | MR | 12 | 2001 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Simazine | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Atrazine | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Dalapon | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Endothall | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| Diquat | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 12 | 1999 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 12 | 1999 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bgwc Purdy Shores (0150014) has 780 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (142 of 780), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
780 Higher than most more violations than 98% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Bgwc Purdy Shores (0150014)
EPA SDWIS lists 268 people served and 107 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
780 violations · 268 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Bgwc Purdy Shores
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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