City and town drinking water records

Water systems serving Columbia, SC

4 community water systems have a mapped service area in Columbia, SC. City of Columbia covers 100% of the area inside Columbia's Census boundary and reports serving 319,500 people in all.

1 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. None of those systems has one still unresolved.

2 rely mainly on groundwater and 2 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 0 lead lines, 8 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 1,160 lines of unknown material.

10 more systems are placed in Columbia by EPA's town record because they have no service area map that lines up with their own records, so they are listed apart and not counted here.

Community water systems

4

Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years

1

Systems with one unresolved

0

Lead service lines in inventories

0

Water systems serving Columbia

4 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
City of Columbia	Covers 100% of Columbia	319,500	Surface water	2	0	0
Fort Jackson	Mapped area inside Columbia	31,000	Purchased surface water	0	0	0
Bay Capital Water Works	Mapped area inside Columbia	647	Groundwater	0	0	0
Lakewood MHP	Mapped area inside Columbia	110	Groundwater	0	0	0

Systems placed by EPA's town record in Columbia

10 systems

EPA has no service area map for some of these systems, and the maps it has for the others do not line up with their own records. They are placed by EPA's town record (EPA lists them serving this town), and without a map they are not counted in the figures above.

System	Area	People served	Main source	Health-based violations, 10 years	Unresolved	Lead lines
BGWC Charleswood S/D	Town on record	484	Purchased surface water	0	0	0
BGWC Farrowwood Estates	Town on record	356	Purchased surface water	0	0	0
BGWC Washington Heights	Town on record	190	Purchased surface water	0	0	0
Silver Hill Manuf Home Comm.	Town on record	180	Groundwater	0	0	0
Freeway MHP	Town on record	135	Groundwater	0	0	0
Palmetto Park	Town on record	132	Groundwater	0	0	0
Sandy Hill MHP	Town on record	81	Groundwater	0	0	0
Winsor Valley MHP	Town on record	68	Groundwater	0	0	0
Cresthaven MHP	Town on record	37	Groundwater	1	1	0
Pine Valley Community	Town on record	21	Groundwater	0	0	0

Other cities and towns in Richland County

13 places

• Arcadia Lakes
• Arthurtown
• Blythewood
• Capitol View
• Dentsville
• Eastover
• Forest Acres
• Hopkins
• Irmo
• Lake Murray of Richland
• Olympia
• St. Andrews
• Woodfield

Back to Richland County, SC

Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations