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Habersham County, Georgia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet GA137 · Habersham County 17 sys · 537 viol · #1123/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · BELOW-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 64.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 15.8% health
  • RANK-UPPER #1123/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 4.0 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 76%
  • SYS-SMALL 17 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Lumpkin County (+ 4 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Habersham County ranks #1,123 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #44 of 159 counties in Georgia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Habersham County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 64.7% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 15.8% 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 #1,123 of 3,254 · #44 of 159 in Georgia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Habersham County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Habersham · this county · lowest Richmond · near 64.7% 68.8% 75% 75% 75% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Demorest 18,049 68 Clean
Cornelia 6,130 19 Clean
Clarkesville 5,785 19 Clean
Baldwin 4,160 73 Clean
Alto 2,737 93 -
Mount Airy 1,384 61 -
The Orchard Development 639 35 -
Deer Trail Lakes/High Meadows Subdivisio 111 0 -
Old River Road HOA 104 8 -
Old Panther Creek Subdivision 75 0 -
Pinecrest Mountain S/D 67 0 -
Glen-Ella Springs Inn 65 7 -
Soque Wilderness 63 0 -
El Paraiso 44 103 -
Sautee Resort 44 0 -
Mill Creek 34 0 -
Victory Home-Helping Hand , Inc. 30 51 -

Compare beyond Georgia

Lower-flagged peers for Habersham County

Cross-state counties nearest Habersham County on flagged-system share (64.7%) and cumulative violation count (537). 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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