Community Water System · PWS SC3750022
Turtlehead at Keowee S/D (Sc3750022)
Operator location West Union, South Carolina - 28% of 39 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 32 served per SDWIS.
- 32
- People served (this PWS)
- 39
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Turtlehead at Keowee S/D (Sc3750022) standing, mid SDWIS violation third
28% of 39 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 28% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Turtlehead at Keowee S/D (Sc3750022) lands in the middle third by violation volume (39), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (32; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 28% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 39
- Total EPA violations on record
- 28%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 32
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 28
- County
- Oconee
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 19
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 11 | 2010 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2022 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2010 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Turtlehead at Keowee S/D (Sc3750022) has 39 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 50% carry more. 28% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 39), 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)
39 Lower than most fewer violations than 50% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Turtlehead at Keowee S/D (Sc3750022)
11 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for SC3750022.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
39 violations · 32 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.
What to do with Turtlehead at Keowee S/D
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in South Carolina compares on the same EPA violation measures. South Carolina systems
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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