Community Water System · PWS GA2090003
Mount Vernon
Operator location Mt. Vernon, Georgia - 60% of 182 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 3,243 served per SDWIS.
- 3,243
- People served (this PWS)
- 182
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 109
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Mount Vernon standing, high SDWIS violation third
60% of 182 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 60% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,064 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Mount Vernon sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (182), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,243 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 60% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,064 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #252 of 629
- Population · GA
- 182
- Total EPA violations on record
- 60%
- 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
- 988
- County
- Montgomery
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 109
- Monitoring Violations
- 63
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 59 | 2010 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MCL | 50 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2014 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2023 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2016 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 2020 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2022 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Mount Vernon has 182 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 60% of this system's own violations are health-based (109 of 182), and it ranks #10,064 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)
182 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Mount Vernon
109 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for GA2090003.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Georgia EPD, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
182 violations · 3,243 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Mount Vernon
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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