Community Water System · PWSID GA0690031

Bay Meadows Estates

Serves 1,674 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSavannah, Georgia

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On record since 2013: 17 violations. 1 over the limit · 13 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2023-10-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit

0Treatment lapse

13Missed or late test

3Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% of active water systems in Georgia. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

6% over the limit · 176% missed or late test · 1318% notice or report · 3

Across Georgia, 52% of violations are missed or late tests and 7% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

1.2 ppb

Every violation on record

2023-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2023-10-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2023-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2023-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228) ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2023-01-01Combined Uranium ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2023-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U ×2Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2020-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
2017-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2017-01-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2017-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2016-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served	1,674
Service connections	537
Water source	Groundwater
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Private
Status	Active
City	Savannah
EPA ZIP on file	31405

Areas served

Coffee County

Reading this record

Bay Meadows Estates is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,674 people in Savannah, Georgia. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.