Is BARROW COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
BARROW COUNTY WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 17,893 people through 7,039 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
BARROW COUNTY WATER SYSTEM has 7 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,500th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 65th percentile nationally.
How BARROW COUNTY WATER SYSTEM compares within GA
Among the 312 GA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - BARROW COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's 4 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BARROW COUNTY WATER SYSTEM is from 2020-01-04 (health-based: 2020-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/12/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BARROW COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
BARROW COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 4 health-based violations on file for BARROW COUNTY WATER SYSTEM - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.