Community Water System · PWSID GA1470008

Bowersville

Serves 594 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentBowersville, Georgia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 3 open testing or paperwork violations.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 1996: 22 violations. 5 missed or late tests · 17 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-02.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
17Notice or report3 open

More violations on record than 91% 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

1996 · Missed or late test: 11998 · Missed or late test: 12000 · Notice or report: 22000 · Notice or report: 220002001 · Notice or report: 12002 · Notice or report: 12003 · Notice or report: 120052008 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Missed or late test: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Notice or report: 12018 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
23% missed or late test · 577% notice or report · 17

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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.3 ppb
1.2 ppb
0.5 ppb
0.5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2023-01-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-02Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2023-01-26Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  3. 2022-10-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  4. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  7. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  9. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  10. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  11. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  12. 2010-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2008-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2001-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  19. 2000-07-01Consumer Confidence Rule ×2CCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 1998-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  21. 1996-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served594
Service connections195
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityBowersville
EPA ZIP on file30516

Areas served

  • Bowersville, Hart County

Reading this record

Bowersville is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 594 people in Bowersville, 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.