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Fulton County, Georgia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet GA121 · Fulton County 11 sys · 332 viol · #25/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 100.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 29.5% health
  • RANK-TOP #25/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 71.4% detect
  • SRC-SW SW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Fulton County ranks #25 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #1 of 159 counties in Georgia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Fulton County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 100.0% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 29.5% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 71.4% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #25 of 3,254 · #1 of 159 in Georgia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Fulton County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Habersham · lowest Wilkes · highest Cobb · near Clayton · near 64.7% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Atlanta 1,089,893 59 Detected
North Fulton County 434,517 18 Clean
East Point 33,712 32 Detected
College Park 20,382 18 -
Union City 18,636 54 Clean
Roswell 14,300 19 Detected
Fairburn 14,000 40 -
Hapeville 5,790 27 Detected
Palmetto 4,718 36 Detected
Mountain Park 557 25 -
Atlanta-Fulton County Water Resources 0 4 -

Compare beyond Georgia

Mid-flagged peers for Fulton County

Cross-state counties nearest Fulton County on flagged-system share (100.0%) and cumulative violation count (332). 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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