Community Water System · PWSID GA1470074

Last Frontier Subdivision

Serves 55 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateHartwell, Georgia
Nothing open that measures the water, but 4 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 2005: 25 violations. 13 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 5 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-06-01.

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

13Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
6Notice or report4 open

More violations on record than 93% 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

2005 · Notice or report: 1200520102013 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Treatment lapse: 120202022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Over the limit: 62022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42022 · Missed or late test: 42023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Over the limit: 72023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42023 · Notice or report: 42024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
52% over the limit · 134% treatment lapse · 120% missed or late test · 524% notice or report · 6

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×+Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UCombined Radium (-226 and...2023-10-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 20.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.3×)2023-07-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 7.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (1.4×)2023-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 25.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (1.7×)2023-04-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 10.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (2.0×)2023-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 36.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (2.4×)2023-01-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 11.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (2.2×)2023-01-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 41.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (2.7×)2022-10-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 11.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (2.2×)2022-10-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 36.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (2.4×)2022-07-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 11.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (2.2×)2022-07-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 51.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (3.4×)2022-04-01 · Combined Radium (-226 and -228): measured 11.00 PCI/L vs limit 5.00 PCI/L (2.2×)2022-04-01 · Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U: measured 61.00 PCI/L vs limit 15.00 PCI/L (4.1×)
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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

5.5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2023-07-30Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  2. 2023-03-24Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2023-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 20.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  3. 2023-07-30Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  4. 2023-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 7.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  5. 2023-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 25.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  6. 2023-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 10.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  7. 2023-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 36.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  8. 2023-03-24Public Notice ×2PN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  9. 2023-01-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 41.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-10-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LBack in compliance
  12. 2022-10-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 36.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2022-07-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-07-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 51.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2022-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)Monitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  17. 2022-04-01Combined UraniumMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  18. 2022-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  19. 2022-04-01Combined Radium (-226 and -228)MCL, Averagemeasured 11.00 PCI/L · limit 5.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2022-04-01Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UMCL, Averagemeasured 61.00 PCI/L · limit 15.00 PCI/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2016-10-13Revised Total Coliform RuleTTBack in compliance
  22. 2013-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  23. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served55
Service connections21
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityHartwell
EPA ZIP on file30643-0265

Areas served

  • Hart County

Reading this record

Last Frontier Subdivision is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 55 people in Hartwell, 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.