Community Water System · PWS GA2950014
Walker Co. Rural Water Auth.
Operator location Rock Spring, Georgia - larger served population (> 3,309) at 3,410 people served; 19 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 3,410
- People served (this PWS)
- 19
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Walker Co. Rural Water Auth. standing, low SDWIS violation third
3,410 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #9,784 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Walker Co. Rural Water Auth. is in the lower third by violation count (19; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is large (3,410; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,784 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #248 of 629
- Population · GA
- 19
- Total EPA violations on record
- 16%
- 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
- 1,311
- County
- Walker
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 8
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 1996 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2013 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Walker Co. Rural Water Auth. has 19 recorded EPA violations, 30% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 69% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 19), and it ranks #9,784 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)
19 Lower than most fewer violations than 69% 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 Walker Co. Rural Water Auth.
EPA SDWIS lists 3,410 people served and 1,311 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
19 violations · 3,410 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
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 Walker Co. Rural Water Auth.
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