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Early County, Georgia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet GA099 · Early County 12 sys · 229 viol · #2542/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 91.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 18.3% health
  • RANK-LOWER #2542/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 12 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Early County ranks #2,542 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #119 of 159 counties in Georgia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Early 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 18.3% is health-based share in the middle 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 #2,542 of 3,254 · #119 of 159 in Georgia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Early County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Habersham · lowest Bartow · near Decatur · 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
Blakely 5,716 28 Clean
Paper Mill WS 475 8 -
Jakin 262 36 -
Damascus 240 74 -
DNR-Kolomoki Sp-Stay Use 200 10 -
DNR-Kolomoki Sp-Group Camp 200 9 -
DNR-Kolomoki Sp-Day Use Area 200 3 -
DNR-Kolomoki Sp-Museum 200 7 -
Republic Conduit 135 15 -
Woodyard WS 75 17 -
Log Cabin Restaurant 73 22 -
Dollar General - Jakin #19505 30 0 -

Compare beyond Georgia

Lower-flagged peers for Early County

Cross-state counties nearest Early County on flagged-system share (91.7%) and cumulative violation count (229). 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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