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Electric City Utilities

Serves Anderson, Centerville and Northlake, Anderson County, SC · 38,204 people served

Federal records show 1 health-based violation and 1 monitoring/reporting issue for Electric City Utilities in the last ten years. The most serious issue in this window was a resolved Revised Total Coliform Rule violation.

  • SC0410012
  • ANDERSON
  • SC
  • 38,204 served

System profile

Source water Purchased surface water
ZIP 29625
EPA system ID SC0410012

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Health-based violations, last 10 years
1
Resolved
1
Unresolved
0
Any acute record
Yes
Monitoring issues, last 10 years
1

Key facts

  • Electric City Utilities buys its water from Anderson Regional Joint WS.
  • Most recent formal enforcement: compliance order with a penalty by South Carolina, March 2022.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 3,162 unknown out of 19,306 service lines.

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Health-based violations

Since October 2016

Violation data reflects EPA records through March 2026. For the most current status, visit the EPA ECHO database.

Contaminant Rule family Start date Status Acute
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Contaminant limit exceeded
 110 Dec 1, 2021 Resolved Yes

Monitoring and reporting issues

Since October 2016

Missed tests or reports, not contaminants found above a limit.

Issue Start date Status
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring violation
 Nov 1, 2016 Resolved

Enforcement actions

South Carolina regulators took 2 formal enforcement actions against Electric City Utilities and issued 1 boil water order in 2022, filed as 4 records in EPA's data. The most recent was a compliance order with a penalty in March 2022.

Date By Action Violations covered
Mar 1, 2022 South Carolina Compliance order with a penalty 2 violations (2 health-based): Revised Total Coliform Rule
Mar 1, 2022 South Carolina Administrative penalty 1 violation (1 health-based): Revised Total Coliform Rule
Jan 11, 2022 South Carolina Boil water order 1 violation (1 health-based): Revised Total Coliform Rule

What the violations mean

Revised Total Coliform Rule

1 incident

The system did not meet a requirement of the Revised Total Coliform Rule

Coliform and E. coli rules protect against bacteria in the distribution system

Where the water comes from

Electric City Utilities buys its water from Anderson Regional Joint WS. It lists no wells or intakes of its own. 1 other community water system and 3 smaller public systems such as schools, businesses or campgrounds buy water from Electric City Utilities.

Buys water from

Community systems that buy water from it

Annual water quality report

Electric City Utilities must give its customers an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) by July 1, with the levels its tests found in the previous year.

Systems serving 10,000 or more people must mail or deliver the report to every customer, and from 2027 they must send it twice a year.

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Testing your own water

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