Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID GA0950066

New Beginnings Christian School

Serves 70 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateAlbany, GeorgiaServes a school or daycare
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

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 2016: 4 violations. 1 over the limit · 2 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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
2Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 41% 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

2005201020152016 · Over the limit: 120202022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 150% missed or late test · 225% notice or report · 1

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

8.8 ppb
6 ppb
3.7 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2022-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2016-01-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served70
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAlbany
EPA ZIP on file31705

Areas served

  • Dougherty County

Reading this record

New Beginnings Christian School is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 70 people in Albany, 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.