Is Walhalla, SC tap water safe?
The short answer
Neither of the 2 utilities serving Walhalla 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.
City of Walhalla, 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 Walhalla’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
City of Walhalla
South Carolina · serves 16,010 people · about 470 in Walhalla
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
City of Westminster
South Carolina · serves 9,588 people · under 100 in Walhalla
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 4.0 ppb, above the health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Walhalla
The 3 labs South Carolina certifies closest to Walhalla, 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 19 miles
Certified for lead and copper, metals
Alliance Technical Group LLC - Greenville
Greenville, SC · about 40 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 53 miles
Certified for bacteria
Which ZIP codes are in Walhalla: 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 Walhalla
Other towns in Oconee County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read City of Walhalla’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