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Wayne County, Georgia

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet GA305 · Wayne County 29 sys · 976 viol · #1988/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 86.2% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 9.9% health
  • RANK-LOWER #1988/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.5 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-SMALL 29 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Dodge County ( -0.5 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Wayne County ranks #1,988 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #84 of 159 counties in Georgia. See methodology · corpus placement.

Wayne County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 86.2% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 9.9% 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 #1,988 of 3,254 · #84 of 159 in Georgia.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Wayne County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Habersham · lowest Dodge · near Wayne · this county Wilkes · highest 64.7% 85.2% 85.7% 85.7% 86.2% 87.5% 100%

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

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Lower-flagged peers for Wayne County

Cross-state counties nearest Wayne County on flagged-system share (86.2%) and cumulative violation count (976). 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.

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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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