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Richmond County, Georgia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet GA245 · Richmond County 8 sys · 601 viol · #319/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 75.0% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 4.5% health
  • RANK-TOP #319/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.0 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 88%
  • SYS-TINY 8 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

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

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Richmond County ranks #319 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #12 of 159 counties in Georgia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Richmond County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 75.0% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 4.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #319 of 3,254 · #12 of 159 in Georgia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Richmond County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Habersham · lowest Muscogee · near Burke · near Wilkes · highest 64.7% 75% 75% 75% 79.2% 80% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Augusta-Richmond Co WS 204,000 19 Detected
Hephzibah 6,941 119 Clean
Blythe 1,482 35 -
Heritage RV Park 335 55 -
Plantation Acres MHP 227 273 -
Reasonable Living 194 100 -
USA-Fort Gordon Range Cntrl Complex 100 0 -
USA-Fort Gordon Range 14 28 0 -

Compare beyond Georgia

Lower-flagged peers for Richmond County

Cross-state counties nearest Richmond County on flagged-system share (75.0%) and cumulative violation count (601). 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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