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Is Sumter, SC tap water safe?

City of Sumter serves Sumter, 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 Sumter serves Sumter. In EPA’s and South Carolina’s records it has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 33.6 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Sumter’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Sumter

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

  • Pace Analytical Services LLC

    West Columbia, SC · about 38 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (704) 977-0963

  • Alliance Technical Group LLC - Columbia

    Columbia, SC · about 40 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (864) 232-1556

  • Data Resources Incorporated

    Columbia, SC · about 42 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (803) 561-0331

All 36 certified labs for South Carolina

ZIP codes in Sumter

Which ZIP codes are in Sumter: 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 Sumter

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

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