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Is Williamston, SC tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Williamston, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and South Carolina’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

None of the 3 utilities serving Williamston 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.

Town of Williamston, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 3.0 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Williamston’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Town of Williamston’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Williamston

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 Williamston, 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 15 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals

    (864) 784-9883

  • Alliance Technical Group LLC - Greenville

    Greenville, SC · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (864) 232-1556

  • L&L Environmental Ware Shoals

    Ware Shoals, SC · about 24 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (864) 456-2696

All 36 certified labs for South Carolina

ZIP codes in Williamston

Which ZIP codes are in Williamston: 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 Williamston

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