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CLAYTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY: EPA violation history, explained

CLAYTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 298,374 people get their water from it, across 87,365 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

CLAYTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY has 4 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,789th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 32th percentile nationally.

Against the GA average

CLAYTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's 1 health-based violations sit within the GA average of 3.5, across 312 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

CLAYTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's most recent violation on record is dated 2007-01-02, with the most recent health-based one dated 2007-01-02. Last reported to EPA: 06/12/2026.

The concern categories on record

CLAYTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY'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 synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / vocs, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What CLAYTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY's record does not cover

This is what CLAYTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 4 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.