What's in FRANKLIN COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's water?
FRANKLIN COUNTY WATER SYSTEM had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 5,638 people get their water from it, across 2,150 connections.
FRANKLIN COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's record against the rest of the country
FRANKLIN COUNTY WATER SYSTEM has 100 violations on record in total, 42 of thems health-based - ranking it 347th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 97th percentile nationally.
How FRANKLIN COUNTY WATER SYSTEM compares within GA
FRANKLIN COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's 42 health-based violations sit above 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 FRANKLIN COUNTY WATER SYSTEM is from 2024-09-02 (health-based: 2024-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/12/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
FRANKLIN 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)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Uranium; Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
- 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
FRANKLIN 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. Between the utility's meter and FRANKLIN COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 347th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.