DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in WALKER CO. RURAL WATER AUTH.'s water?

WALKER CO. RURAL WATER AUTH. has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 3,410 people get their water from it, across 1,311 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

WALKER CO. RURAL WATER AUTH. has 12 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,453th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 50th percentile nationally.

Against the GA average

WALKER CO. RURAL WATER AUTH.'s 2 health-based violations sit within the GA average of 3.5, across 312 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

WALKER CO. RURAL WATER AUTH.'s most recent violation on record is dated 2017-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 1996-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 06/12/2026.

The concern categories on record

WALKER CO. RURAL WATER AUTH.'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 WALKER CO. RURAL WATER AUTH.'s record does not cover

WALKER CO. RURAL WATER AUTH.'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. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for WALKER CO. RURAL WATER AUTH. - 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.