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Banks County, Georgia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet GA011 · Banks County 7 sys · 223 viol · #2257/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-LOWER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-SW · SYS-TINY · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 85.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 42.6% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2257/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-TINY 7 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Dodge County (+ 0 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Banks County ranks #2,257 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #97 of 159 counties in Georgia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Banks County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 85.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 42.6% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,257 of 3,254 · #97 of 159 in Georgia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Banks County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Banks County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Habersham · lowest Madison · near Dodge · near Wilkes · highest 64.7% 84.6% 85.2% 85.7% 85.7% 86.2% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Banks Co - Mountain Creek 6,453 16 Clean
Maysville Water System 2,838 87 -
Homer 1,188 82 -
Chimney Oaks 505 4 -
Scales Creek Golf Course 108 20 -
Hidden Lake Subdivision 108 14 -
Apple Pie Ridge Subdivision 49 0 -

Compare beyond Georgia

Lower-flagged peers for Banks County

Cross-state counties nearest Banks County on flagged-system share (85.7%) and cumulative violation count (223). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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