Community Water System · PWSID GA2170003

Newborn Water System

Serves 667 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: Local GovernmentJackson, Georgia
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On record since 2017: 9 violations. 9 over the limit. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

9Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 68% 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

2005201020152017 · Over the limit: 12018 · Over the limit: 12019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32019 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 320202025 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% over the limit · 9

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×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2025-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0850 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2020-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2020-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2020-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0810 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2019-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0870 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.1×)2019-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0810 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2018-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2017-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0820 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
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.

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0850 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2020-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0870 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2018-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0820 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served667
Service connections257
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityJackson
EPA ZIP on file30233

Areas served

  • Covington, Newton County

Reading this record

Newborn Water System is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 667 people in Jackson, 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.