Community Water System · PWS GA1210004
Fairburn
Operator location Fairburn, Georgia - larger served population (> 3,309) at 14,000 people served; 40 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 14,000
- People served (this PWS)
- 40
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fairburn standing, mid SDWIS violation third
14,000 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #3,656 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fairburn lands in the middle third by violation volume (40), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (14,000; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #3,656 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #101 of 629
- Population · GA
- 40
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- 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
- 5,170
- County
- Fulton
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 19
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 13 | 2024 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 12 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 5 | 2022 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fairburn has 40 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 49% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 40), and it ranks #3,656 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)
40 Around the middle fewer violations than 49% 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 Fairburn
EPA SDWIS lists 14,000 people served and 5,170 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
40 violations · 14,000 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 similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Fairburn
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
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