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Monroe County, Georgia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet GA207 · Monroe County 11 sys · 556 viol · #1371/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 90.9% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 11.9% health
  • RANK-MID #1371/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 100.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 73%
  • SYS-SMALL 11 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Monroe County ranks #1,371 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #55 of 159 counties in Georgia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Monroe County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 90.9% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 11.9% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 100.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #1,371 of 3,254 · #55 of 159 in Georgia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Monroe County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Habersham · lowest Appling · near Bartow · near Wilkes · highest 64.7% 90.9% 90.9% 91.1% 91.7% 91.7% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
South Monroe County Water System 16,292 52 Detected
Forsyth 8,585 63 Detected
North Monroe Water System 2,903 20 -
Georgia Power-Plant Scherer 1,022 2 -
Camp Kaleo 423 28 -
Dollar General #19356 300 0 -
Culloden 284 107 -
L & D Campground 83 32 -
Whispering Pines of Juliette 25 214 -
DNR-High Falls State Park Day Use 25 28 -
DNR-High Falls State Park River Camp 18 10 -

Compare beyond Georgia

Lower-flagged peers for Monroe County

Cross-state counties nearest Monroe County on flagged-system share (90.9%) and cumulative violation count (556). 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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