MACON WATER AUTHORITY: EPA violation history, explained

MACON WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 130,024 people through 51,665 service connections.

MACON WATER AUTHORITY's record against the rest of the country

7 total violations and 2 health-based ones put MACON WATER AUTHORITY at the 48th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,684 of 12,903.

How MACON WATER AUTHORITY compares within GA

MACON WATER AUTHORITY's 2 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

The last violation EPA has on record for MACON WATER AUTHORITY is from 2013-01-01 (health-based: 2010-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/12/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

MACON 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:

• 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

MACON WATER AUTHORITY'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 MACON WATER AUTHORITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,684th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.