Community Water System · PWSID SC3250029

Bgwc Parkwood S/D (3250029)

Serves 311 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateElgin, South Carolina
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On record since 1994: 5 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2022-12-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
2Treatment lapse
3Missed 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

1994 · Treatment lapse: 21994 · Treatment lapse: 21995200020052010201520202022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
40% treatment lapse · 260% missed or late test · 3

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

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 14 results on file · action level 15 ppb

239 ppb
61 ppb
52 ppb
46 ppb
33 ppb
31 ppb
16 ppb
8 ppb
6 ppb
6 ppb
5 ppb
5 ppb
3 ppb
1.5 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-12-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Monitoring of Treatment (SWTR-Filter)Back in compliance
  2. 2022-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-01ChlorineMonitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  5. 1994-07-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Study/RecommendationBack in compliance

System details

Population served311
Service connections123
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityElgin
EPA ZIP on file29045

Areas served

  • West Columbia, Lexington County

Reading this record

Bgwc Parkwood S/D (3250029) is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 311 people in Elgin, 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.