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Community Water System · PWS GA3190001

Gordon

Operator location Gordon, Georgia - 31% of 59 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,291 served per SDWIS.

2,291
People served (this PWS)
59
EPA violations (this PWS)
18
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Gordon standing, mid SDWIS violation third

31% of 59 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 31% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,588 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Gordon lands in the middle third by violation volume (59), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,291 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 31% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,588 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#298 of 629
Population · GA
59
Total EPA violations on record
31%
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
850
County
Wilkinson
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
18
Monitoring Violations
22
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 18 2015
Coliform (TCR) MR 13 2014
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 13 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2009
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2021
Public Notice Other 1 2022
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 1 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Gordon has 59 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 31% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 59), and it ranks #12,588 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)

59 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% 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 Gordon

18 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for GA3190001.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Georgia EPD, Drinking Water Program

Nationwide peers

59 violations · 2,291 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

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Gordon

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