Community Water System · PWS GA0870000
Attapulgus
Operator location Attapulgus, Georgia - 87% of 68 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 750 served per SDWIS.
- 750
- People served (this PWS)
- 68
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 59
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Attapulgus standing, mid SDWIS violation third
87% of 68 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 87% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #23,347 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Attapulgus lands in the middle third by violation volume (68), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (750; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 87% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #23,347 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #505 of 629
- Population · GA
- 68
- Total EPA violations on record
- 87%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 291
- County
- Decatur
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 59
- Monitoring Violations
- 4
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 51 | 2024 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2002 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 4 | 1987 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 4 | 1987 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Attapulgus has 68 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 35% carry more. 87% of this system's own violations are health-based (59 of 68), and it ranks #23,347 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
68 Around the middle fewer violations than 35% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Attapulgus
59 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for GA0870000.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Georgia EPD, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
68 violations · 750 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Attapulgus
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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