Community Water System · PWS GA1950060
Madison County Water System
Operator location Danielsville, Georgia - larger served population (> 3,309) at 4,663 people served; 47 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 4,663
- People served (this PWS)
- 47
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Madison County Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third
4,663 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #8,060 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Madison County Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (47), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (4,663; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #8,060 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #210 of 629
- Population · GA
- 47
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- 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
- 1,727
- County
- Madison
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 34
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 11 | 2016 |
| E. COLI | MR | 8 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2021 |
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2010 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Madison County Water System has 47 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 47), and it ranks #8,060 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)
47 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% 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 Madison County Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 4,663 people served and 1,727 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
47 violations · 4,663 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 Madison County Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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