Community Water System · PWSID SC3810008

Norway Town of (3810008)

Serves 775 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentNorway, South Carolina
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2007: 6 violations. 1 over the limit · 4 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
4Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% 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

20052007 · Notice or report: 12009 · Missed or late test: 120102015 · Over the limit: 1201520202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% over the limit · 167% missed or late test · 417% notice or report · 1

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

17 ppb
4.5 ppb
4.3 ppb
3.3 ppb
1.3 ppb
0.69 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  2. 2023-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2022-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2015-11-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  5. 2009-07-02Dbp Stage 2Failure Submit IDSE/Subpart V Plan RptBack in compliance
  6. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served775
Service connections347
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityNorway
EPA ZIP on file29113

Areas served

  • Norway, Orangeburg County

Reading this record

Norway Town of (3810008) is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 775 people in Norway, 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.