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Bartow County, Georgia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet GA015 · Bartow County 12 sys · 523 viol · #541/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 8.8% health
  • RANK-TOP #541/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 66.7% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 58%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Bartow County ranks #541 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #20 of 159 counties in Georgia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Bartow County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 91.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 8.8% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 66.7% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #541 of 3,254 · #20 of 159 in Georgia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Bartow County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Habersham · lowest Walton · near Early · near Wilkes · highest 64.7% 91.7% 91.7% 91.7% 91.7% 91.9% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Bartow County 70,243 23 Detected
Cartersville 24,830 25 Detected
Adairsville 7,306 35 Clean
Emerson 1,435 30 -
Kingston 1,263 152 -
White 900 44 -
Red Top 852 0 -
Glade Marina Office 453 5 -
Waterside Subdivision 107 4 -
Cedar Hill Mobile Home Park 60 47 -
Holiday Marina 50 136 -
Glade Marina Well #1 50 22 -

Compare beyond Georgia

Lower-flagged peers for Bartow County

Cross-state counties nearest Bartow County on flagged-system share (91.7%) and cumulative violation count (523). 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.

4 peers

Similar violation load

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

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

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