Taylors, SC tap water
Supplied mostly by Greenville Water, plus 2 other utilities. Here's what the water means for your fish.
Disinfectant
Chlorine or chloramine
Utilities here use chlorine or chloramine, depending on which one serves your address. Chlorine slowly gases off from standing water; chloramine doesn't.
Safety for fish and shrimp
Ammonia (with conditioner)
Estimate0.56–0.78 ppm (Worth knowing)
Typical 0.56 ppm
This is what a conditioner frees when it breaks the chloramine apart. A cycled filter clears it within a day; a big water change in a new or very small tank adds more of it at once. Some conditioners also bind ammonia for a day or so.
Estimated from the chloramine level Greenville Water reports (2025).
Nitrite (NO₂)
Not detected (Low)
Not detected in testing, so any nitrite in your tank comes from the tank itself.
From EPA monitoring data (2014).
Nitrate (NO₃)
Up to 3.7 ppm (Low)
Typical 0.2 ppm
Low, so water changes lower your tank's nitrate well.
From Greenville Water's 2025 water quality report; EPA monitoring data; Greer Cpw and Greenville Water, which supplies Blue Ridge Water Co Inc (SC2320003) (2012–2025).
Chlorine or chloramine at the tap
2.3–3.2 ppm
Typical 2.3 ppm
At tap levels, chlorine and chloramine are toxic to fish, shrimp and the bacteria in a filter. Water conditioners are made for this range.
Published by your utility: Greenville Water's 2025 water quality report.
Water chemistry
General hardness
17 ppm
Soft. Good for tetras, rasboras and most shrimp. Livebearers, snails and African cichlids prefer harder water.
From Greenville Water's website; Greenville Water, which supplies Blue Ridge Water Co Inc (SC2320003).
Carbonate hardness (alkalinity)
8–14 ppm
Typical 8 ppm
Little buffering. pH can drop quickly between water changes, especially with CO₂ or an older tank.
From EPA monitoring data, measured before treatment; Greer Cpw and Greenville Water, which supplies Blue Ridge Water Co Inc (SC2320003), measured before treatment (2012–2019).
pH
7.5–8.2
Typical 7.9
Most community fish do well here. Stable water matters more than the exact number.
From EPA monitoring data; Greenville Water, which supplies Blue Ridge Water Co Inc (SC2320003) (2012–2019).
- Greenville Water, Cliffs at Glassy the (SC2350023) and Blue Ridge Water Co Inc (SC2320003) add phosphate to protect pipes. It can feed algae in tanks without much plant growth.
Who supplies Taylors, SC
- 2025 water quality report
Greenville Water
Serves 70% of residents · Lake or river water · Chloramine
Cliffs at Glassy the (SC2350023)
Serves 18% of residents · Groundwater (wells) · Chlorine
Blue Ridge Water Co Inc (SC2320003)
Serves 5% of residents · Buys water from Greer Cpw (SC2310005) · Chloramine
Our data comes from public records and is still incomplete. Many utilities don't publish every number, so we're adding more all the time. Your city's range is a starting point: testing your own tap is the only way to know exactly what's in it.
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