Community Water System · PWSID GA1030087

South Effingham Woods/Effingham Forest

Serves 340 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateStatesboro, Georgia
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On record since 1996: 34 violations. 29 missed or late tests · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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
29Missed or late test
5Notice or report

More violations on record than 97% 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: 12000 · Missed or late test: 1200020052007 · Notice or report: 220102013 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Notice or report: 12015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Notice or report: 12020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 242020 · Missed or late test: 2420202024 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square ≈ 2 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
85% missed or late test · 2915% notice or report · 5

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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.1 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  2. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  3. 2020-01-01Selenium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2020-01-01Thallium, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2020-01-01Beryllium, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2020-01-01Antimony, Total ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2020-01-01Nickel ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2020-01-01Mercury ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2020-01-01Fluoride ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-01-01Cyanide ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-01-01Chromium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2020-01-01Cadmium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2020-01-01Barium ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2020-01-01Arsenic ×2Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  16. 2015-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2014-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  18. 2013-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  19. 2007-07-01Consumer Confidence Rule ×2CCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  20. 2000-10-01Lead 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 served340
Service connections129
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityStatesboro
EPA ZIP on file30459-1808

Areas served

  • Effingham County

Reading this record

South Effingham Woods/Effingham Forest is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 340 people in Statesboro, 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.