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What is in the water at 29440

3 public water systems serve this ZIP code in the federal records. Everything below comes from EPA monitoring data, and everything missing is named.

GEORGETOWN CITY OF (2210001)

PWSID SC2210001 · SC

PFAS and lithium

6 compounds detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 17 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
PFOS0.0097 µg/L48/21/2024
PFOA0.0083 µg/L48/21/2024
PFHxA0.0052 µg/L35/20/2024
PFPeA0.005 µg/L38/21/2024
PFBS0.0046 µg/L25/20/2024
PFHpA0.0041 µg/L111/18/2024

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

1 open health-based violation(s) recorded in SDWIS and not yet returned to compliance.

  • MCL · contaminant code 2950 · began 2026-01-01

Hardness

Too few readings to state a hardness. 1 station(s), 12 result(s). Below two stations and five results this page will not state a number: a median of two readings from one creek is not your water.

GEORGETOWN RURAL COMM WA (2220001)

PWSID SC2220001 · SC

PFAS and lithium

1 compound detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 5 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
lithium12 µg/L54/21/2025

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

No hardness measurement. Hardness is measured at environmental monitoring stations, and none fell inside this system’s service area. That is a gap in where monitoring happens, not a finding about the water.

GCWSD KILSOCK WATER SYS (SC2220002)

PWSID SC2220002 · SC · serves 4,417 people · service area inferred by a model, not supplied by the state

PFAS and lithium

1 compound detected at or above the reporting limit under EPA’s UCMR 5 monitoring, across 9 samples.

CompoundHighest detectedSamplesMost recent
lithium17 µg/L96/19/2023

A detection is a measurement, not a violation and not a health finding. EPA states that UCMR 5 results do not indicate compliance or non-compliance with any limit.

Health-based violations

No open health-based violation on record. This covers MCL, treatment technique and MRDL violations in SDWIS that have not been returned to compliance. It excludes monitoring and reporting violations, which are the large majority nationally, so this is not “no violations”, and SDWIS completeness varies by state.

Hardness

Too few readings to state a hardness. 1 station(s), 2 result(s). Below two stations and five results this page will not state a number: a median of two readings from one creek is not your water.

What this report cannot tell you

Every figure describes water at a sampling point: a treatment plant, an entry point to the distribution system, or a monitoring station. None of it describes water arriving at your tap. Plumbing between the two can add lead and copper, and if your home was built before 1986 a test kit tells you something no federal dataset can.

Sources: EPA UCMR 5 occurrence (final release, frozen July 2026) · EPA SDWIS health-based violations · USGS and state monitoring via the Water Quality Portal · EPA Public Water System Service Area Boundaries v3. Compiled 2026-09-01 · 1 of 3 service areas here are modelled.