86.2 % of GA drinking water facilities are listed with no SDWA violations

- 2,386 total Drinking Water Facilities in the state of GA (for the quarter July 1 – Sep 30, 2022)

• 330 with Current Violations (up from 277 last quarter)
• 15 with Significant Violations (down from 18 last quarter)
• 34 with Formal Enforcement Actions (in the last 5 yrs)
• 36,169 Georgia residents served by facilities with significant violations

Georgia Drinking Water Facilities with Significant Violations as of the last posted quarterly inspection – July 1 – Sep 30, 2022

According to the EPA, violations records “document 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.”

• Buena Vista, pop 1588 (Marion) Flint River Watershed
• El Paraiso*, pop 44 (Habersham)
• Grantville, pop 3221 (Coweta) Chattahoochee River Watershed
• Hahira, pop 3440 (Lowndes) Suwannee River Watershed
• Hogansville, pop 3741 (Troup)
• Last Frontier Subdivision*, pop 52 (Hart)
• Lexington*, pop 814 (Oglethorpe)
• Long’s Mobile Home Park, pop 78 (Fayette)
• Marshallville, pop 1285 (Macon)
• Maysville Water System, pop 2402 (Banks)
• Oakridge Village, pop 130 (Brooks)
• Petross, pop 78 (Toombs)
• Pine Ridge Subdivision, pop 105 (Lowndes)
• Thomson-McDuffie Co Water and Sewer Commission*, pop 21,312 (McDuffie)
• Valley Mobile Home Community, pop 102 (Coweta)
• Willow Lake MHP, pop 91 (Houston)
• *new listing in the current reporting quarter, July 1 – Sep 30, 2022
• The following DWF’s have been removed from the significant violations list in July 1 – Sep 30, 2022 quarter:
• Attapulgus, pop 723 (Decatur)
• Meadowview Subdivision, pop 146 (Coweta)
• Northridge Water & Light Co., pop 338 (Lowndes)
• Southeastern Expeditions, LLC, pop 75 (Rabun)
• Tennille, pop 1900 (Washington)
• The Traveler’s Inn, pop 66 (Chatham)
• *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.