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Community Water System · PWS GA1810000

Lincolnton

Operator location Lincolnton, Georgia - 61% of 49 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,657 served per SDWIS.

1,657
People served (this PWS)
49
EPA violations (this PWS)
30
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lincolnton standing, mid SDWIS violation third

61% of 49 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 61% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,076 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lincolnton lands in the middle third by violation volume (49), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,657 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 61% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,076 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#339 of 629
Population · GA
49
Total EPA violations on record
61%
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
1,107
County
Lincoln
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
28
Monitoring Violations
5
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 16 2005
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 11 2023
TTHM MCL 10 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 4 2020
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 1996
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 2 2001
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 1992

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lincolnton has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 61% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 49), and it ranks #15,076 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)

49 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Lincolnton

30 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for GA1810000.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Georgia EPD, Drinking Water Program

Nationwide peers

49 violations · 1,657 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Lincolnton

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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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