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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS GA0010002

Altamaha Elementary School

Operator location Baxley, Georgia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 420 people served; 25 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

420
People served (this PWS)
25
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Altamaha Elementary School standing, mid SDWIS violation third

420 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Altamaha Elementary School lands in the middle third by violation volume (25), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (420; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

25
Total EPA violations on record
8%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
420
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
4
County
Appling
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
18
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 13 2002
Nitrate MR 3 2002
Coliform (TCR) MR 2 1999
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 1999

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Altamaha Elementary School has 25 recorded EPA violations, 37% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 62% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 25), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

25 Lower than most fewer violations than 62% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Altamaha Elementary School

EPA SDWIS lists 420 people served and 4 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Georgia EPD, Drinking Water Program

Nationwide peers

25 violations · 420 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Altamaha Elementary School

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Georgia compares on the same EPA violation measures. Georgia systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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