Community Water System · PWS SC3710001
Salem Town of (Sc3710001)
Operator location Salem, South Carolina - larger served population (> 3,309) at 6,444 people served; 62 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 6,444
- People served (this PWS) Larger third of systems
- 62
- EPA violations (this PWS) Middle third of systems
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS) Middle third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Salem Town of (Sc3710001) standing, mid SDWIS violation third
6,444 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #6,510 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Salem Town of (Sc3710001) lands in the middle third by violation volume (62), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (6,444; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #6,510 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #114 of 314
- Population · SC
- 62
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 2,774
- County
- Oconee
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 45
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 1992 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 1992 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 3 | 1992 |
| Benzene | MR | 3 | 1992 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 3 | 1992 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 1992 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 3 | 1992 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 1992 |
| Benzene | MCL | 3 | 2007 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 2 | 2000 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1991 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 1991 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Salem Town of (Sc3710001) has 62 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 62), and it ranks #6,510 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
62 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
How many violations vs. how serious, among peer systems
Salem Town of (Sc3710001) plotted against 29 peer public water systems (500+ people served), by total violation count (x) and the share of those violations that are health-based (y). The crosshair sits at this sample's own median on each axis. A high violation count does not automatically mean a serious record: most monitoring and reporting violations are minor, not health-based.
Violation volume vs. health-based share
Population served record for Salem Town of (Sc3710001)
EPA SDWIS lists 6,444 people served and 2,774 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
62 violations · 6,444 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Salem Town of
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- See how every tracked system in South Carolina compares on the same EPA violation measures. South Carolina systems
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