Pickens, SC
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Environmental data for Pickens in South Carolina · Population: 132,604
Pickens, SC is tracked across three EPA datasets covering 9 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facilities, 16 Safe Drinking Water Act systems, and 0 Superfund National Priorities List sites. Together these generate an environmental burden score of 27/100 (Low Risk), calibrated against national distributions for facility density, chemical release volume, Superfund concentration, and water-system health violations.
Industrial disclosures inside the county total 413.9K lbs of reported toxic releases under EPCRA Section 313, while 1 water system carries an active health-based violation in the SDWIS record. No EPA Air Quality System monitors currently report data for this county.
All figures below draw directly from federal EPA records, TRI self-reported emissions, SDWIS compliance history, NPL Hazard Ranking System scores, and AQS daily AQI summaries, and are not adjusted, weighted, or forecast. A past violation or elevated score does not itself indicate current unsafe conditions; it documents the regulatory and disclosure history publicly filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the most recent reporting cycle.
Water Systems (16)
| System | Population | Violations |
|---|---|---|
| CLEMSON CITY OF (SC3910004) | 17,896 | 0 |
| SIX MILE W/D (SC3920002) | 14,845 | 0 |
| PICKENS WTP (SC3910001) | 10,263 | 6 |
| SOUTHSIDE W/D (3920010) | 9,568 | 0 |
| DACUSVILLE-CEDAR ROCK WT CO (SC3920008) | 8,700 | 0 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY (SC3910006) | 8,320 | 0 |
| BETHLEHEM-ROANOKE W/D (SC3920003) | 6,334 | 0 |
| CENTRAL TOWN OF (SC3910005) | 3,495 | 0 |
| LIBERTY CITY OF (SC3910003) | 3,349 | 0 |
| EASLEY CENTRAL W/D #1 (SC3920001) | 3,283 | 0 |
| EASLEY CENTRAL W/D #2 (SC3920007) | 3,234 | 0 |
| ROCK POINT HOA (SC3950007) | 70 | 0 |
| ISAQUEENA POINT UTIL SYS (SC3750008) | 38 | 0 |
| GAULEY FALLS W/S (SC3950004) | 36 | 0 |
| TABLE ROCK RESORT (SC3970300) | 33 | 0 |
| GAULEY FALLS 2 4 5 6 (SC3950008) | 23 | 0 |
TRI Facilities (9)
| # | Facility | Total Releases |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornell Dubilier Marketing Inc. | 188.8K lbs |
| 2 | Wilbert Plastic Services | 92.0K lbs |
| 3 | Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co | 67.8K lbs |
| 4 | Ortec Inc | 29.1K lbs |
| 5 | Imperial Die Casting | 25.0K lbs |
| 6 | Basf Corporation/clemson Site | 9.2K lbs |
| 7 | Palmetto Plating Co Inc | 2.0K lbs |
| 8 | St Jude Medical Cardiology Div. Inc. | 25 lbs |
| 9 | Danfoss Power Solutions (us) Co | 2 lbs |
Cities in Pickens (3)
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This county environmental profile rolls up EPA Toxics Release Inventory facility reports, Safe Drinking Water Information System public-water-system filings, and Superfund National Priorities List sites for the county boundary defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Facility counts reflect facilities with a reporting address inside the county, not where downstream environmental effects may be observed. Population figures are from the most recent Census ACS 5-year estimate. The county detail page is updated whenever the upstream EPA programs publish revised data; see the methodology page for the documented ingest cadence and the editorial choices governing how aggregations are computed.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.