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Is Socastee, SC tap water safe?

Grand Strand W&Sa/Bull Creek serves Socastee, 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

Grand Strand W&Sa/Bull Creek serves Socastee. In EPA’s and South Carolina’s records it has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 11.5 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 Grand Strand W&Sa/Bull Creek’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Socastee

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 Socastee, 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 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (843) 347-7688

  • Davis & Brown Inc.

    Florence, SC · about 57 miles

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

    (843) 665-6746

  • FMU Freshwater Ecology Center

    Florence, SC · about 57 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (843) 661-4470

All 36 certified labs for South Carolina

ZIP codes in Socastee

Which ZIP codes are in Socastee: 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 Socastee

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