Community Water System · PWSID GA1190001

Carnesville Water System

Serves 954 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentCarnesville, Georgia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2006: 18 violations. 4 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 11 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-06-17.

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

4Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test1 open
11Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 88% 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

20052006 · Notice or report: 12007 · Notice or report: 12009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 120102012 · Notice or report: 12013 · Notice or report: 12014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Notice or report: 12020 · Notice or report: 120202021 · Notice or report: 12022 · Notice or report: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 12025 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
22% over the limit · 417% missed or late test · 361% notice or report · 11

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

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Combined Uranium2017-07-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 33.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.1×)2017-04-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 40.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.3×)2017-01-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 39.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.3×)2016-10-01 · Combined Uranium: measured 38.00 UG/L vs limit 30.00 UG/L (1.3×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

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

7.2 ppb
5 ppb
4.3 ppb
3.3 ppb
3 ppb
1 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 2 results on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

4 mg/L
1.4 mg/L

Open now (2)

  1. 2025-06-17E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-06-17E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Open
  2. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  4. 2022-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  5. 2021-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2020-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  7. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2017-07-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 33.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-04-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 40.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2017-01-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 39.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2016-10-01Combined UraniumMCL, Averagemeasured 38.00 UG/L · limit 30.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  13. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  14. 2012-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  15. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served954
Service connections457
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityCarnesville
EPA ZIP on file30521

Areas served

  • Carnesville, Franklin County

Reading this record

Carnesville Water System is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 954 people in Carnesville, 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.