AUGUST 26, 2025 - ADMINISTRATIVE COMPLIANCE ORDER
Respondent's PWS provides piped water for human consumption and regularly serves at least 15 service connections and/or at least 25 residents and is therefore a public water system as defined by Section 1401(4) of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. 300f(4), and 40 C.F.R. 141.2, and is also a community water system (CWS) as defined by Section 1401(15) of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. 300f(15), and 40 C.F.R. 141.2.
Respondent's ownership and operation of the System makes it a supplier of water within the meaning of Section 1401(5) of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. 300f(5), and 40 C.F.R. 141.2.
Section 1433 of the SDWA is an applicable requirement as defined in Section 1414(i) of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. 300g-3(i)(1).
Although the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (GA EPD) administers the Public Water Supply Supervision Program in the State of Georgia pursuant to Section 1413 of the SDWA, 42 U.S.C. 300g-2, the EPA retains primary enforcement authority over Section 1433 of the SDWA. See 42 U.S.C. 300g-3(g)(1) (granting the EPA administrative enforcement authority over ?applicable requirements,? as defined at Section 1414(i), 42 U.S.C. 300g-3(i))
Section 1433(a)(1)(A) of the SDWA requires a CWS serving more than 3,300 persons to conduct a Risk and Resilience Assessment RRA) of its system.
A CWS serving a population of more than 100,000 people was required to certify to the EPA that it had completed and/or revised the RRA no later than March 31, 2020 and