Is Northlake, SC tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 5 utilities serving Northlake 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: Electric City Utilities.
Electric City Utilities, 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 Northlake’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
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Electric City Utilities
South Carolina · serves 38,204 people · about 1,000 in Northlake
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
1 health-based violation since 2016
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Hammond W/D
South Carolina · serves 21,193 people · about 360 in Northlake
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 11 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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West Anderson W/D
South Carolina · serves 17,430 people · about 220 in Northlake
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
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Sandy Springs Water Co Inc
South Carolina · serves 17,311 people · about 170 in Northlake
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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Broadway W&S District
South Carolina · serves 9,586 people · about 150 in Northlake
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Northlake
The 3 labs South Carolina certifies closest to Northlake, 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 8 miles
Certified for lead and copper, metals
Alliance Technical Group LLC - Greenville
Greenville, SC · about 26 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 27 miles
Certified for bacteria
Which ZIP codes are in Northlake: 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 Northlake
Other towns in Anderson County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Electric City Utilities’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