Lamar Town of (Sc1610004)

Water Quality Snapshot: Lamar Town of (Sc1610004)

Lamar Town of (Sc1610004) is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 1,034 residents in Lamar, South Carolina (Darlington County) through 489 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 89 total violations for this system , of which 19 (21%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 61 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2021.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Revised Total Coliform Rule, recorded in 30 violations (MON). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across South Carolina, EPA tracks 1,390 public water systems serving 4,709,324 people, with 38,355 cumulative violations and 9,705 health-based violations on record. About 65% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 27.6 violations. Statewide, 107 of 164 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (65.2%).

Lamar Town of (Sc1610004)'s 89 violations sit above the South Carolina average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.