Community Water System · PWSID SC0110001

Abbeville City of (0110001)

Serves 5,640 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentAbbeville, South Carolina
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: DBP Stage 1. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2010: 5 violations. 2 over the limit · 2 treatment lapses · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2022-01-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

2Over the limit
2Treatment lapse1 open
1Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 83% of active water systems in South Carolina. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

20052010 · Missed or late test: 1201020152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 220202021 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% over the limit · 240% treatment lapse · 220% missed or late test · 1

Across South Carolina, 61% of violations are missed or late tests and 9% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0890 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0870 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2 ppb
0.99 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2021-12-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-01-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  2. 2021-12-01DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorOpen
  3. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0890 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0870 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2010-07-02Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance

System details

Population served5,640
Service connections2,689
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityAbbeville
EPA ZIP on file29620

Areas served

  • Abbeville, Abbeville County

Reading this record

Abbeville City of (0110001) is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 5,640 people in Abbeville, South Carolina. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.