DAWSON: EPA violation history, explained
DAWSON has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,857 people get their water from it, across 2,019 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
DAWSON has 24 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,157th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 52th percentile nationally.
How DAWSON compares within GA
DAWSON's 2 health-based violations sit within the GA average of 3.5, across 312 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for DAWSON is from 2023-01-04 (health-based: 2010-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/12/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
DAWSON'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)
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
Everything on this page is DAWSON's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for DAWSON - 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.