12/6/2023
WT Staff
Safe Drinking Water Act
New EPA Serious Violators List Oct 2023
85% of Georgia Drinking Water Facilities listed with no EPA violations
as of the last completed inspection quarter ended June 30, 2023
2,383 total Drinking Water Facilities with active permits in the state of GA (down from 2387 last quarter)
- 357 (15%) with Current Violations (down from 381 last quarter)
- 22 (.9%) with Significant Violations (down from 32)
- 1 (0%) with Formal Enforcement Actions in the last 5 yrs (down from 30)
- 51,154 (.48%) of Georgia's 10,711,908 residents served by serious violators (down from 93,961)
Oct 2023 EPA Serious Violator List
based on the latest completed quarterly inspection verified data, Apr 1, 2023 – June 30, 2023
- Beaver Dam Estates Mobile Home Park, pop 78 (Clarke County)
- Calhoun Utility, pop 213 (Long)
- Camak, pop 200 (Warren)
- Crawfordville Water System*, pop 624 (Taliaferro)
- Dogwood Blossom Trailer Park, pop 68 (Douglas)
- Hahira, pop 3440 (Lowndes) Suwannee River Watershed
- Last Frontier Subdivision, pop 52 (Hart)
- Lowndes Co - North Lowndes Co Water System, pop 12473 (Lowndes)
- Milner, pop 1890 (Lamar)
- Petross**, pop 151 (Toombs)
- Pine Ridge Subdivision, pop 105 (Lowndes)
- Putnam County School Water System, pop 908 (Putnam)
- Reidsville Water System, pop 2594 (Tatnall)
- Reynolds*, pop 1273 (Taylor)
- Salem Plantation Subdivision, pop 130 (Greene)
- Savannah Health Services LLC, pop 4800 (Chatham)
- Shuman Trailer Park, pop 65 (Bryan)
- Summertown, pop 250 (Emanuel)
- Thomson-McDuffie Co Water and Sewer Commission, pop 21,312 (McDuffie)
- Trotter's Ridge Subdivision, pop 187 (Jackson)
- Whispering Pines RV Park, pop 308 (Effingham)
- Willow Lake MHP, pop 91 (Houston)
*new listing in the current reporting quarter
**returning to the list after having been off for at least one quarter
The following DWFs have been removed from the serious violators list:
- 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 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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