York County, SC Water Use Rules: Leak Reporting Duty (2026)

The duty sits inside York County's Drought Management Plan, adopted under Ordinance 104 (2004) and amended by Ordinance 7208 (2008). 04(B) directs county staff to 'intensify maintenance efforts to identify and correct water leaks in the distribution system,' and customers who receive a written ten-day notice to repair one or more leaks face a service cutoff if they miss the deadline. 04(C) reserve broader cutoff authority for noncompliant customers across the system. 05, which lets authorized law enforcement and county agencies serving water issue a written notice citing the date and circumstances of a violation.

A cited customer can request a hearing in writing within 15 days of receiving the notice; the county must then set a hearing date between 10 and 30 days later, and the customer may appear and testify with relaxed rules of evidence. Failing to request a hearing waives those administrative remedies. A customer who loses at the hearing can still petition the circuit court for judicial review within 30 days, though that petition does not pause the surcharge unless the court reverses the county's decision.