Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001)

Water Quality Snapshot: Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001)

Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001) is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 36,314 residents in Laurens, South Carolina (Laurens County) through 15,580 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 21 total violations for this system , of which 19 (90%) 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 2013.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Coliform (TCR), recorded in 12 violations (MCL, health-based). Under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, 9 PFAS compounds were detected in samples collected from this system, with a maximum reported concentration of 95.8 ppt (parts per trillion). PFAS are persistent synthetic chemicals linked to health effects at very low exposure levels.

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%).

Laurens County W&S Comm (Sc3020001)'s 21 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.