DrinkingWaterCheck

Is BUTTS COUNTY/JACKSON/JENKINSBURG WS's water safe to drink?

BUTTS COUNTY/JACKSON/JENKINSBURG WS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 31,171 people get their water from it, across 8,509 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, BUTTS COUNTY/JACKSON/JENKINSBURG WS ranks 3,722th by violation burden (71th percentile) - 11 violations total, 5 health-baseds.

Against the GA average

Among the 312 GA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - BUTTS COUNTY/JACKSON/JENKINSBURG WS's 5 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

BUTTS COUNTY/JACKSON/JENKINSBURG WS's most recent violation on record is dated 2018-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 2015-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/12/2026.

The concern categories on record

BUTTS COUNTY/JACKSON/JENKINSBURG WS'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:

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 BUTTS COUNTY/JACKSON/JENKINSBURG WS's record does not cover

Everything on this page is BUTTS COUNTY/JACKSON/JENKINSBURG WS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and BUTTS COUNTY/JACKSON/JENKINSBURG WS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,722th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.