Transient Non-Community · PWSID SC3770650

USFS Andrew Pickens Rs (Sc3770650)

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalColumbia, South Carolina
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On record since 1996: 4 violations. 4 treatment lapses. Most recent began 2004-01-01.

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

0Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 77% 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

1996 · Treatment lapse: 21996 · Treatment lapse: 21997 · Treatment lapse: 120002004 · Treatment lapse: 120052010201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% treatment lapse · 4

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2004-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  2. 1997-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  3. 1996-05-01Lead and Copper RuleOCCT/SOWT Treatment Installation/DemonstrationBack in compliance
  4. 1996-01-01Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections6
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityColumbia
EPA ZIP on file29212

Areas served

  • Oconee County

Reading this record

USFS Andrew Pickens Rs (Sc3770650) is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Columbia, 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.