Is Liberty, SC tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 5 utilities serving Liberty has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and South Carolina’s records: Town of Central.
Southside W/D, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and South Carolina’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Liberty’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Southside W/D
South Carolina · serves 9,568 people · about 340 in Liberty
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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City of Liberty
South Carolina · serves 3,594 people · about 250 in Liberty
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Bethlehem - Roanoke W/D
South Carolina · serves 6,334 people · under 100 in Liberty
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 14 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Sandy Springs Water Co Inc
South Carolina · serves 17,311 people · under 100 in Liberty
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 3.0 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Town of Central
South Carolina · serves 3,495 people · under 100 in Liberty
1 result above the legal limit, 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 83.5 ppb, above the legal limit.
1 health-based violation since 2016
Water testing near Liberty
The 3 labs South Carolina certifies closest to Liberty, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
International Product Assurance Laboratories
Anderson, SC · about 14 miles
Certified for lead and copper, metals
Alliance Technical Group LLC - Greenville
Greenville, SC · about 19 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
L&L Environmental Ware Shoals
Ware Shoals, SC · about 37 miles
Certified for bacteria
ZIP codes in Liberty
Which ZIP codes are in Liberty: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: SCDES, Commercial Environmental Laboratory Mapping (CELMapp), labs certified under the Safe Drinking Water Act; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.
Near Liberty
Other towns in Anderson County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Southside W/D’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water