Is The Cliffs Valley, SC tap water safe?
The short answer
Greenville Water serves The Cliffs Valley. In EPA’s and South Carolina’s records it has nothing above a health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.
That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
The water from Greenville Water is soft, an average of 5.7 mg/L (0.3 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.
Water testing near The Cliffs Valley
The 3 labs South Carolina certifies closest to The Cliffs Valley, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Alliance Technical Group LLC - Greenville
Greenville, SC · about 19 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
International Product Assurance Laboratories
Anderson, SC · about 40 miles
Certified for lead and copper, metals
L&L Environmental Ware Shoals
Ware Shoals, SC · about 48 miles
Certified for bacteria
ZIP codes in The Cliffs Valley
Which ZIP codes are in The Cliffs Valley: 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 The Cliffs Valley
Other towns in Greenville County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Greenville Water’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