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5/31/2024
WT Staff
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT
Violation identified
Echols County Water Authority, Statenville BWA
Friday, May 31, 2024 337 pm EDT
May 30 Echols County Water Authority issued a boil water advisory following a water service disruption. The BWA will be in effect for minimum three days and possibly up to five days following the restoration of water service. This notice impacts customers in Statenville.
Drinking Water Facility Profile: Echols County Water Authority
EPA Status: Violation Identified
Owner: local government
Location: Statenville, GA
County: Echols
Active Permit: GA1010000
System Type: community water system
Population Served: 972 residents
Connections: 364 combined and residential, metered
Source: groundwater wells
Administrative Contact: Teresa Rewis tel 229-561-6727
Compliance Inspection: Sanitary survey, complete October 18, 2022 (State)
Minor deficiencies found in Data Verification, Distribution, Source
Recommendations made in Management-Operation, Finished Water Storage and Treatment
The following information gathered from federal EPA pertains to the quarter ending December 31, 2024 (data last refreshed on EPA database April 10, 2024)
Non-compliant inspections
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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with Significant Violations
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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Informal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 yrs)
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Formal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 years)
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5 out of 12
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0 out of 12
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9
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0
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NViolations
Consumer Confidence Rule violation - noted OCt 1, 2022 up to and including the most recent inspection quarter ended Dec 31, 2023 - unaddressed
Groundwater Rule - monitoring and reporting violation - noted Feb 2, 2023 to Feb 18, 2023 - resolved
*Note that drinking water information provided on this site is aggregated from the federal EPA database, state resources and local government sources where available.
EPA publishes violation and enforcement data quarterly, based on the inspection reports of the previous quarter. Water systems, states and EPA take up to three months to verify this data is accurate and complete.
Specific questions about your local water supply should be directed to the facility.
The EPA safe drinking water facilities data available to the public presents what is known to the government based upon the most recently available information for more than one million regulated facilities. EPA and states inspect a percentage of facilities each year, but many facilities, particularly smaller ones, may not have received a recent inspection. It is possible that facilities do have violations that have not yet been discovered, thus are shown as compliant in the system.
EPA cannot positively state that facilities without violations shown in ECHO are necessarily fully compliant with environmental laws. Additionally, some violations at smaller facilities do not need to be reported from the states to EPA. If ECHO shows a recent inspection and the facility is shown with no violations identified, users of the ECHO site can be more confident that the facility is in compliance with federal programs.
The compliance status of smaller facilities that have not had recent inspections or review by EPA or the states may be unknown or only available via state data systems.
Safe Drinking Water Act
EPA Serious Violators List
82.2% SDWA Compliance:Georgia Drinking Water Facilities with no EPA violations
as of the last completed inspection quarter ended December 31, 2023
2,384 total Drinking Water Facilities with active permits in the state of GA (increase of 1)
- 424 (17.7%) with Current Violations (down by 26 from last quarter)
- 31 (1.3%) with Significant Violations (up 7)
- 30 (1.3%) with Formal Enforcement Actions in the last 5 yrs (no change)
- 57,733 (.54%) of Georgia's 10,711,908 residents served by serious violators (increase of 5,725 residents served)
EPA Serious Violator List - updated April 10, 2024
based on the latest completed quarterly inspection verified data, October 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023
9 new facilities added*, 8 facilities cleared from the list since last inspection.
- Ambrose, pop 380 (Coffee)
- Auburn Mobile Home Park, pop 125 (Barrow)
- Baldwin County*, pop 23067 (Baldwin)
- Beaver Dam Estates Mobile Home Park, pop 78 (Clarke County)
- Camak, pop 200 (Warren)
- Crawfordville Water System, pop 624 (Taliaferro)
- Danielsville, pop 1022 (Madison)
- Dogwood Blossom Trailer Park*, pop 68 (Douglas)
- Enota Camp & Resort*, pop 160 (Towns)
- Hephzibah*, pop 6257 (Richmond)
- Hogansville - Lake Jimmy Jackson Rec Arena*, pop 120 (Troup)
- Last Frontier Subdivision, pop 52 (Hart)
- Laurel Ridge S/D*, pop 88 (Rabun)
- Lexington, pop 814 (Oglethorpe)
- Lone Oak Water System, pop 307 (Meriwether)
- Lowndes Co - North Lowndes Co Water System, pop 12473 (Lowndes)
- Pappy's Market Place*, pop 150 (Union)
- Peachtree Landing Subdivision*, pop 94 (Coweta)
- Pine Glen Mobile Home Park*, pop 303 (Spalding)
- Pine Ridge Subdivision, pop 105 (Lowndes)
- Portal Water System*, pop 879 (Bulloch)
- Reidsville Water System, pop 2594 (Tatnall)
- Reynolds, pop 1273 (Taylor)
- Riverside Estates Mobile Home Park #2, pop 334 (Newton)
- Savannah Health Services LLC, pop 4800 (Chatham)
- Summertown, pop 250 (Emanuel)
- Woodland Road Water Association, pop 39 (Fayette)
*new listing in the current reporting quarter
The following DWFs were removed from the serious violators list in April 2024:
- Gibson*, pop 1240 (Glascock)
- Hahira, pop 3440 (Lowndes) Suwannee River Watershed
- Petross, pop 151 (Toombs)
- Salem Plantation Subdivision, pop 130 (Greene)
- Shuman Trailer Park, pop 65 (Bryan)
- Thomson-McDuffie Co Water and Sewer Commission, pop 21,312 (McDuffie)
- Whispering Pines RV Park, pop 308 (Effingham)
- Willow Lake MHP, pop 91 (Houston)
Removed from the serious violator list in January 2024:
- Calhoun Utility, pop 213 (Long)
- Dogwood Blossom Trailer Park, pop 68 (Douglas)
- Milner, pop 1890 (Lamar)
- Putnam County School Water System, pop 908 (Putnam)
- Trotter's Ridge Subdivision, pop 187 (Jackson)
The following DWFs were removed from the serious violators list in October 2023:
- Auburn*, pop 8094 (Barrow)
- Buena Vista, pop 1588 (Marion) Flint River Watershed
- Country Living Mobile Home Park, pop 49 (Coffee)
- Fayetteville, pop 15281 (Fayette)
- Franklin County Water System, pop 5691 (Franklin)
- Hazelhurst, pop 5569 (Jeff Davis)
- Homer, pop 900 (Banks)
- Little River Estates Mobile Home Park, pop 54 (Echols)
- Pyrotechnic Specialties Inc, pop 135 (Peach)
- Statham, pop 3986 (Barrow)
- Stillmore*, pop 520 (Emanuel)
- USCE Paynes Creek, pop 130 (Hart)
- Warrenton, pop 2800 (Warren)
Removed from the serious violator list in July 2023:
- Dallas, pop 13232 (Paulding)*
- Hogansville, pop 3741 (Troup)
- Oakridge Village, pop 130 (Brooks)
- Petross, pop 78 (Toombs)
- Strong Rock Camp and Retreat, pop 350 (White)*
- Swamp Fox Water System, pop 100 (Chatham)*
- Truluck Bran-Tre Subdivision, pop 57 (Crisp)*
- Valley Mobile Home Community, pop 102 (Coweta)
According to the EPA, violations records document the breach of a requirement. From EPA Safe Drinking Water Act Glossary of terms:
“Violations are detected by assessment of sample results or reviews (including site visits). Violations may lead to legal actions or compliance orders. Violations are publicized, when required, by public notification. Violations may be remedied by compliance/enforcement remedies, such as improved filtration techniques or changes in procedures. Examples include: Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) violations, failure to replace lead service lines, monitoring and reporting violations, treatment technique violations, and procedural violations.”
Note that drinking water information provided on this site is aggregated from the federal EPA database, state resources and local government sources where available.
EPA publishes violation and enforcement data quarterly, based on the inspection reports of the previous quarter. Water systems, states and EPA take up to three months to verify this data is accurate and complete.
Specific questions about your local water supply should be directed to the facility.
The EPA safe drinking water facilities data available to the public presents what is known to the government based upon the most recently available information for more than one million regulated facilities. EPA and states inspect a percentage of facilities each year, but many facilities, particularly smaller ones, may not have received a recent inspection. It is possible that facilities do have violations that have not yet been discovered, thus are shown as compliant in the system.
EPA cannot positively state that facilities without violations shown in ECHO are necessarily fully compliant with environmental laws. Additionally, some violations at smaller facilities do not need to be reported from the states to EPA. If ECHO shows a recent inspection and the facility is shown with no violations identified, users of the ECHO site can be more confident that the facility is in compliance with federal programs.
The compliance status of smaller facilities that have not had recent inspections or review by EPA or the states may be unknown or only available via state data systems.
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