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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS SC0970901

Tri-County Electric Coop (0970901)

Operator location St Matthews, South Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 50 people served; 40 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

50
People served (this PWS)
40
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Tri-County Electric Coop (0970901) standing, mid SDWIS violation third

50 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

Tri-County Electric Coop (0970901) lands in the middle third by violation volume (40), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (50; 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.

40
Total EPA violations on record
18%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
50
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
2
County
Calhoun
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
30
Treatment Tech Violations
3

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 16 2012
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2016
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2015
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2018
E. COLI MR 4 2012
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 3 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 3 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Tri-County Electric Coop (0970901) has 40 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 49% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 40), 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)

40 Around the middle fewer violations than 49% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Tri-County Electric Coop (0970901)

EPA SDWIS lists 50 people served and 2 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

40 violations · 50 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Tri-County Electric Coop

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater