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Pierce County, Georgia

15 SDWIS-listed public water systems serve 7,062 people in Pierce County. Violation rates use that full inventory; PFAS rates use only the UCMR5-tested subset.

15
SDWIS water systems Middle third of counties
288
Total violations Lower third of counties
73.3%
SDWIS systems w/ a violation Lower third of counties
0.0%
UCMR5 PFAS rate (2 tested) Lower third of counties with tests

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet GA229 · Pierce County 15 sys · 288 viol · #2609/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 73.3% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 5.9% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #2609/3254
  • BELOW-PEER 1.7 pp cleaner
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 15 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Muscogee County (+ 1.7 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Pierce County ranks #2,609 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #123 of 159 counties in Georgia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Pierce County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 73.3% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 5.9% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #2,609 of 3,254 · #123 of 159 in Georgia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Pierce County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Habersham · lowest Pierce · this county Richmond · near Wilkes · highest 64.7% 68.8% 73.3% 75% 75% 75% 100%

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

Water Systems

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Lower-flagged peers for Pierce County

Cross-state counties nearest Pierce County on flagged-system share (73.3%) and cumulative violation count (288). 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).

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

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