Georgetown County, SC
The federal environmental record for Georgetown County (population 65,731): what is on file, where it is, and what remains open. Sources and retrieval dates are on the methodology page.
0
Superfund NPL sites
2
federal cleanup sites
2
PFAS-detecting water systems
9
TRI facilities
26
open tank releases
Drinking water: PFAS testing
Public water systems serving Georgetown with at least one PFAS detection under UCMR5. The federal limit for PFOA and PFOS is 4 ng/L; EPA proposed in May 2026 to rescind the limits for the other compounds, which are shown for information.
| System | Highest results | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN CITY OF (2210001) SC2210001 | PFOS: 9.7 ng/L PFOA: 8.3 ng/L PFHxA: 5.2 ng/L | above final limit |
| GCWSD WACCAMAW NECK (SC2220010) SC2220010 | PFOA: 9.5 ng/L PFOS: 9.1 ng/L PFPeA: 8.8 ng/L | above final limit |
On a system with detections? Testing and treatment options
Facilities reporting toxic releases (2024)
9 facilities in Georgetown filed TRI reports for 2024, totalling 3.6M lb released.
| Facility | City | Top chemicals | Total released |
|---|---|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL PAPER GEORGETOWN MILL | GEORGETOWN | Methanol, Zinc compounds | 2.7M lb |
| WINYAH GENERATING STATION | GEORGETOWN | Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 712k lb |
| 3V SIGMA USA | GEORGETOWN | Dichloromethane, Methanol | 138k lb |
| THE HM SEFA GROUP LLC WINYAH STAR FACILITY | GEORGETOWN | Lead And Lead Compounds, Mercury And Mercury Compounds | 39 lb |
| AMERICAN GYPSUM SOUTH CAROLINA LLC | GEORGETOWN | Lead And Lead Compounds, Mercury And Mercury Compounds | 32 lb |
| INTERFOR U.S. INC. GEORGETOWN OPERATIONS | GEORGETOWN | Lead And Lead Compounds | 5 lb |
| S&W GEORGETOWN PLANT | GEORGETOWN | Lead | 0 lb |
| ACCENT WIRE GEORGETOWN MILL | GEORGETOWN | - | 0 lb |
| LIBERTY STEEL GEORGETOWN INC. | GEORGETOWN | - | 0 lb |
Underground fuel tanks
EPA's UST Finder records 239 tank facilities in Georgetown: 163 tanks in service and 541 closed. 176 fuel releases are on record, of which 26 remain open. Open releases are cleanups that have not reached "no further action".
Radon
EPA maps Georgetown as Zone 3, the lowest predicted indoor radon (under 2 pCi/L average). Radon and air quality are covered in depth on lung.com.
The record for one specific address
County figures blur what matters: distance. The Address Environmental Report runs these same federal datasets against one address and reports every site, tank, polluter and water result around it, with distances, in about a minute.
Get the report - $39All federal cleanup sites on file
The wider Superfund enterprise inventory (SEMS) for Georgetown, including sites assessed but never listed. Presence here records that EPA had reason to look, not a finding of danger.
- BYPRODUCTS INDUSTRIES INC.ANDREWS
- ONEITA INDUSTRIESANDREWS