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Is Litchfield Beach, SC tap water safe?

Gcwsd Waccamaw Neck serves Litchfield Beach, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and South Carolina’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Gcwsd Waccamaw Neck serves Litchfield Beach. In EPA’s and South Carolina’s records it has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOA at 9.5 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Gcwsd Waccamaw Neck’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Litchfield Beach

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab South Carolina certifies.

The 3 labs South Carolina certifies closest to Litchfield Beach, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Environmental Systems Testing Services LLC

    Conway, SC · about 21 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (843) 347-7688

  • Davis & Brown Inc.

    Florence, SC · about 61 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (843) 665-6746

  • FMU Freshwater Ecology Center

    Florence, SC · about 62 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (843) 661-4470

All 36 certified labs for South Carolina

ZIP codes in Litchfield Beach

Which ZIP codes are in Litchfield Beach: 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 Litchfield Beach

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