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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS SC1570115

Lcca Head Start (1570115)

Operator location Walterboro, South Carolina - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 265 people served; 54 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

265
People served (this PWS)
54
EPA violations (this PWS)
12
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lcca Head Start (1570115) standing, mid SDWIS violation third

265 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Lcca Head Start (1570115) lands in the middle third by violation volume (54), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (265; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

54
Total EPA violations on record
22%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
265
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
Local
Connections
1
County
Colleton
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
31
Treatment Tech Violations
12

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 21 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 10 2004
Lead and Copper Rule TT 8 2003
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 4 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 4 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lcca Head Start (1570115) has 54 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 41% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 54), 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)

54 Around the middle fewer violations than 41% 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 Lcca Head Start (1570115)

EPA SDWIS lists 265 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

54 violations · 265 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Lcca Head Start

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