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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS GA2410045

Usfs - Tallulah River Camp Area

Operator location Lakemont, Georgia - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 68 people served; 36 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

68
People served (this PWS)
36
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Usfs - Tallulah River Camp Area standing, mid SDWIS violation third

68 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 19% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Usfs - Tallulah River Camp Area lands in the middle third by violation volume (36), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (68; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 19% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

36
Total EPA violations on record
19%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
68
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Federal
Connections
6
County
Rabun
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
27
Treatment Tech Violations
5

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 11 2014
E. COLI MR 7 2020
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 7 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule TT 5 2023
Revised Total Coliform Rule MCL 2 2018
Nitrate MR 2 1999
Public Notice Other 2 2023

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Usfs - Tallulah River Camp Area has 36 recorded EPA violations, 47% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 52% carry more. 19% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 36), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

36 Lower than most fewer violations than 52% 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 Usfs - Tallulah River Camp Area

EPA SDWIS lists 68 people served and 6 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

36 violations · 68 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.

4 peers

What to do with Usfs - Tallulah River Camp Area

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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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