Georgetown Rural Comm WA (2220001)

Water Quality Snapshot: Georgetown Rural Comm WA (2220001)

Georgetown Rural Comm WA (2220001) is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 4,941 residents in Georgetown, South Carolina (Georgetown County) through 2,268 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 4 total violations for this system , of which 1 (25%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 1 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 1995.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Coliform (TCR), recorded in 1 violation (MCL, health-based). 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%).

Georgetown Rural Comm WA (2220001)'s 4 violations sit below 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.