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Is Seven Oaks, SC tap water safe?

City of Columbia serves Seven Oaks, 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

City of Columbia serves Seven Oaks. 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 2 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 8.6 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from City of Columbia is soft, an average of 36 mg/L (2.1 grains per gallon). How it compares.

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 City of Columbia’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Seven Oaks

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 Seven Oaks, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins Columbia

    Irmo, SC · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

  • Data Resources Incorporated

    Columbia, SC · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (803) 561-0331

  • Alliance Technical Group LLC - Columbia

    Columbia, SC · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (864) 232-1556

All 36 certified labs for South Carolina

ZIP codes in Seven Oaks

Which ZIP codes are in Seven Oaks: 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 Seven Oaks

Other towns in Lexington County with a page of their own.

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