Company Profile
Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority
Company Overview
Each and every day…
We treat and deliver an average of 20 million gallons of drinking water each day to more than 55,000 retail customers.
We also supply drinking water to wholesale customers who resell or redistribute our water to their residents. Overall, we serve more than 150,000 Low country residents with drinking water.
We collect, treat and recycle more than 9 million gallons of treated wastewater (for about 37,000 sewer accounts) safely back into the environment each day.
BJWSA follows the regulations of the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and the standards set in the Clean Drinking Water Act by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We see these regulations and standards as the minimum and always strive to exceed these requirements.
Company History
Who We Are
BJWSA is a public, nonprofit organization created by the South Carolina legislature. We are governed by a board of directors consisting of eleven members, who have been recommended by Beaufort County and Jasper County legislative delegations and appointed by the governor of South Carolina.
The General Manager oversees the organization and reports directly to the board. He is assisted by our Deputy General Manager of Finance and Administration and our Deputy General Manager of Operations and Technical Services.