What is the Munimetric score for Georgia?

Munimetric assigns a state-level average MISI score based on the individual scores of all covered community water systems in Georgia. The state average, band distribution, and market-level rankings are shown on this page. Higher MISI values indicate greater structural stress.

Which water systems in Georgia face the most infrastructure stress?

The state page ranks the highest-stress systems in Georgia by MISI score. Stress reflects operational burden, capital gaps, revenue fragility, rate affordability constraints, and governance risk, not a single compliance event. The headline remains a blended structural stress composite rather than a pure physical-condition index. Workflow actions remain reserved for account access.

How does Georgia compare to other states for drinking water infrastructure risk?

Georgia is compared against all 50 states and territories using average MISI score, market count, and band distribution. Munimetric tracks nationwide coverage across 9,000+ scored service markets.

Are there lead pipe or corrosion-related concerns in Georgia water systems?

Where lead and copper rule compliance data is available from EPA SDWA records, Munimetric factors it into the Operational Stress family score. Specific lead service line inventories vary by system. Individual system profiles contain the most detailed compliance context available.

Does Munimetric include PFAS monitoring context for Georgia water systems?

Munimetric summarizes stored PFAS monitoring context where public contaminant-monitoring records are available. Missing PFAS summaries remain missing records, not non-detections, and this public-record layer does not change the MISI score by itself.

What compliance signals are active in Georgia?

Munimetric tracks signals such as compliance escalation, monitoring and reporting failures, population decline, income erosion, data staleness, and parent-government fiscal stress across Georgia water systems.

Does Munimetric track boil water advisories in Georgia?

Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisories, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. Munimetric monitors structural conditions that provide context around system reliability over time.

How many covered systems in Georgia have recent recorded drinking-water violations?

Stored public records show 101 covered systems with recent drinking-water violations, with 603 recorded violations across 236 covered systems in the recent 3 years window.

How does Munimetric summarize PFAS public-record context in Georgia?

Stored contaminant-monitoring summaries are present for 220 covered systems; 98 systems have PFAS detection context in this state summary.

How does Munimetric summarize lead & copper context in Georgia?

Stored lead & copper summaries are present for 234 covered systems; 61 systems have violation or action-level context in this state summary.

What source-water types are represented across covered Georgia systems?

Stored identity records group covered Georgia systems by source-water type: Surface water: 140, Groundwater: 96.

Where can I find official drinking-water records for Georgia?

The Official records drawer lists Public drinking-water profile, Contaminant monitoring records links where currently available for Georgia.

Is this a real-time statewide tap-water condition rating?

No. This is not a real-time tap-water condition determination. Munimetric summarizes stored public-record context for research and navigation, and this layer does not change MISI.

States / Georgia

Georgia

Name: Georgia Drinking Water Infrastructure Stress Data
Creator: Munimetric
License: https://munimetric.com/terms

Explore Georgia drinking-water system scores, stress signals, infrastructure risk, and statewide market context across 236 scored service markets serving approximately 9.9 million people. This state profile highlights what is happening and why it matters using water-system, fiscal, capital, and signal context.

Georgia has an average MISI infrastructure stress score of 16.4/100 in the Stable band as of 2026-08-18. Public records summarize recent drinking-water violations, PFAS monitoring records, lead and copper context, and source-water mix across 236 covered systems. Updated May 2026.

National context

States sized by scored-market count. Color reflects average stress band.

236Markets scored

16.4Headline composite

~9.9MPop. served

848Active signals

Band distribution (MISI)

State headline composite

Component of current headline composite

Infrastructure Stress13.5 / 100

Physical, compliance, and capital-execution pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Socioeconomic Stress2.8 / 100

Affordability, demand-base, and parent-government fiscal pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Observability Stress0.1 / 100

Staleness, disclosure freshness, and reporting-visibility effects reflected in the blended headline composite.

16.4 headline compositeGeorgia state composite236 markets~9.9M people served

State interpretation guide

How to read Georgia headline composite

Plain-language summary

Georgia currently shows an average MISI headline composite of 16.4 versus a national average of 24.4. In v0.1.2, the headline composite remains a blended structural stress measure rather than a pure physical-condition index. A frozen national reference and a 50 percent single-factor cap reduce the dominance of near-universal and very rare factors, while the component bars continue to separate infrastructure, socioeconomic, and observability readings.

Why this page stands out

236 scored systems are included in this state view, with explicit confidence and source-backed context.
State posture is benchmarked against national averages, not evaluated in isolation.
Top system links below connect state-level findings directly to profile-level diagnostics.

What to do next

Review the executive context to understand the state-level pressure pattern.
Open top system profiles to inspect what is actually driving stress at market level.
Use saved monitoring after research access is enabled to follow high-stress systems over time.

Priority Georgia paths

Public record layer

Statewide Water Quality Context

Stored public-record context for recent drinking-water violations, contaminant monitoring, and source-water mix across covered systems. This is not a tap-water safety determination and does not change the MISI score.

Systems with recent violations

101 of 236Systems with recent public violation rows.

Source-water mix236 systems

Surface water140
Groundwater96
Purchased water0
Mixed source0
Not stored0

Latest identity snapshot: Jun 30, 2026

Coverage

Violation, enforcement, and compliance-burden counts use the recent 3 years window for dated stored records.
Drinking-water identity snapshots are stored for 235 of 236 included scored systems.
PFAS monitoring summary records are stored for 220 of 236 included systems; missing records are not treated as non-detections.
Lead and copper summary records are stored for 234 of 236 included systems; missing records are not treated as absence of lead/copper context.

Water quality questionsDefinitions and public-record context

How many covered systems in Georgia have recent recorded drinking-water violations?: Stored public records show 101 covered systems with recent drinking-water violations, with 603 recorded violations across 236 covered systems in the recent 3 years window.
How does Munimetric summarize PFAS public-record context in Georgia?: Stored contaminant-monitoring summaries are present for 220 covered systems; 98 systems have PFAS detection context in this state summary.
How does Munimetric summarize lead & copper context in Georgia?: Stored lead & copper summaries are present for 234 covered systems; 61 systems have violation or action-level context in this state summary.
What source-water types are represented across covered Georgia systems?: Stored identity records group covered Georgia systems by source-water type: Surface water: 140, Groundwater: 96.
Where can I find official drinking-water records for Georgia?: The Official records drawer lists Public drinking-water profile, Contaminant monitoring records links where currently available for Georgia.
Is this a real-time statewide tap-water condition rating?: No. This is not a real-time tap-water condition determination. Munimetric summarizes stored public-record context for research and navigation, and this layer does not change MISI.

Official records

Public drinking-water profileEPA ECHO: Federal drinking-water dashboard and public-record search entry point.
Contaminant monitoring recordsEPA UCMR: Federal contaminant-monitoring program reference and public data entry point.

Methodology/source notes

Methodology/source notesDisplayed from stored public drinking-water records and official program references. This layer does not change MISI.
Enforcement historyEPA ECHO / SDWIS: Violation and enforcement counts are aggregated from stored public compliance records across covered systems.
Contaminant monitoring recordsEPA UCMR: PFAS context uses stored contaminant-monitoring summaries where available; missing records are not treated as non-detections.
State drinking-water programOfficial link not currently stored for this state program mapping.

Top recent compliance-burden systemsRecent 3 years

System	Population	Source water	Recent violations	Recent enforcement	Public-record flags
Lowndes Co.-North Lowndes Co. WsGA1850016	13,190	Groundwater	40	102	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, lead/copper context
Baldwin CountyGA0090000	23,067	Surface water	36	84	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history
Thomson-Mcduffie Co W&S CommGA1890001	21,312	Surface water	30	103	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records, lead/copper context
GrayGA1690000	9,339	Groundwater	24	6	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records
MoultrieGA0710004	17,067	Groundwater	24	5	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records
Hazlehurst Water SystemGA1610001	5,778	Groundwater	20	43	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures
Walthourville Water SystemGA1790020	3,858	Groundwater	17	52	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures
PelhamGA2050003	4,007	Groundwater	17	33	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures

This is not a real-time tap-water condition determination. For current advisories or health guidance, consult the utility or state drinking-water program.

Executive context

What This Page Shows

236 of the community drinking-water systems in Georgia are currently scored. Analytics below are calculated from this covered subset only. Covered systems serve approximately 9.9M people.

What the Data Suggests

Georgia has 236 scored service markets in the Munimetric coverage set, covering roughly 9.9 million residents in total. At the latest reading, the state-level average lands at 16.4 out of 100, indicating limited signs of structural stress in aggregate. A relatively small share — roughly 3% — currently sit in elevated-stress bands.

Across state markets, Operational Stress (7.9 points average) and Capex Pressure (5.6) are the leading contributors to headline stress. The relatively close spacing suggests pressure is spread across more than one dimension.

848 active signals are recorded across state markets. The most prevalent is Current Drought Severity, affecting 153 markets.

State-level average stress has been relatively steady between recent observation periods, suggesting the current picture reflects persistent conditions rather than a sudden shift.

This summary is based on structured, source-backed public data and is intended for research and monitoring only. It is not investment advice, a credit opinion, or municipal advisory guidance.

Recent Movement

Latest average MISI is 16.4 as of Aug 18, 2026. Movement since Aug 17, 2026 is flat.

Compact summary from 96 stored state observations.

State Family Contribution Summary

Operational Stress7.9 / 20.0

Capex Pressure5.6 / 20.0

Revenue Fragility2.2 / 20.0

Governance Risk0.6 / 20.0

Rate Constraint0.1 / 20.0

Signals

Signal Frequency

Signal	Severity	Markets affected	% of scored
Current Drought Severity	medium	153	65%
Climate Hazard Exposure	high	150	64%
Compliance Escalation	high	139	59%
PFAS Contamination Risk	high	98	42%
High-AGI Out-Migration	high	65	28%
Lead & Copper Rule Risk	high	61	26%
Infrastructure Capital Gap	high	50	21%
Monitoring / Reporting Failures	medium	37	16%
Parent-Government Fiscal Stress	high	34	14%
Population Served Decline	high	30	13%
Housing Market Weakness	medium	22	9%
Income Erosion	medium	5	2%
Utility Data Staleness	high	4	2%

Markets

Top Markets

#	Market	Score	Band	Population	Signals
1	Atlanta	42.8	Fragile	1.1M	8
2	Albany	42.3	Fragile	101K	9
3	Columbia County	41.2	Fragile	125K	7
4	East Point	40.3	Fragile	34K	8
5	Cobb County	40.2	Fragile	695K	7
6	Marietta	40.2	Fragile	60K	7
7	Dalton Utilities	38.1	Watch	99K	7
8	Roswell	35.6	Watch	14K	7
9	Brunswick	35.0	Watch	304	7
10	Usmc-Logistics	34.9	Watch	3K	7
11	Augusta-Richmond Co Ws	34.7	Watch	204K	5
12	Cherokee County	34.5	Watch	224K	6
13	Cumming	33.5	Watch	59K	6
14	Covington	32.9	Watch	14K	5
15	Forsyth Co. Water & Sewer	32.8	Watch	161K	5
16	Larchmont Utilities	31.1	Watch	12K	5
17	Dekalb County	30.8	Watch	743K	5
18	Cartersville	30.7	Watch	25K	5
19	Lawrenceville	30.6	Watch	30K	6
20	North Fulton County	30.3	Watch	435K	5

Comparison

State Comparison

National average: 24.4

Rank	State	Avg Score	Band	Markets	Delta vs State
49	Tennessee	17.6	Stable	261	+1.2
50	Kentucky	17.5	Stable	233	+1.1
51	Georgia	16.4	Stable	236	+0.0
52	Puerto Rico	8.3	Stable	41	-8.1

Analytical posture

State Stress Analytics

Score Distribution

Distribution of scored market scores with the state average overlay.

236 markets plotted.

Stress vs Population

Each point is a scored market; tooltip reveals market-level context.

236 markets plotted.

Population View

People served by community water systems in Georgia, colored by stress band.

~9.9M people served by 236 systems in Georgia

Stable

Watch

Fragile

High Stress

Critical

236 scored systems · colored by stress band

Peer Constellation

Select a market to see its nearest peers by score similarity.

Center market:

24 nearest peers by score distance.

Score Trend

Latest

16.4

Trend

+11.3

Observations

Extended layers

Advanced State Context

Priority views, detailed registers, and methodology supporting the analytical core above.

Markets & signals

Priority Views

#	Market	Score	Band	Population	Signals
1	Atlanta	42.8	Fragile	1.1M	8
2	Albany	42.3	Fragile	101K	9
3	Columbia County	41.2	Fragile	125K	7
4	East Point	40.3	Fragile	34K	8
5	Cobb County	40.2	Fragile	695K	7
6	Marietta	40.2	Fragile	60K	7
7	Dalton Utilities	38.1	Watch	99K	7
8	Roswell	35.6	Watch	14K	7
9	Brunswick	35.0	Watch	304	7
10	Usmc-Logistics	34.9	Watch	3K	7
11	Augusta-Richmond Co Ws	34.7	Watch	204K	5
12	Cherokee County	34.5	Watch	224K	6
13	Cumming	33.5	Watch	59K	6
14	Covington	32.9	Watch	14K	5
15	Forsyth Co. Water & Sewer	32.8	Watch	161K	5
16	Larchmont Utilities	31.1	Watch	12K	5
17	Dekalb County	30.8	Watch	743K	5
18	Cartersville	30.7	Watch	25K	5
19	Lawrenceville	30.6	Watch	30K	6
20	North Fulton County	30.3	Watch	435K	5

Detailed records

Registers

#	Market	Score	Band	Population	Signals
1	Atlanta	42.8	Fragile	1.1M	8
2	Albany	42.3	Fragile	101K	9
3	Columbia County	41.2	Fragile	125K	7
4	East Point	40.3	Fragile	34K	8
5	Cobb County	40.2	Fragile	695K	7
6	Marietta	40.2	Fragile	60K	7
7	Dalton Utilities	38.1	Watch	99K	7
8	Roswell	35.6	Watch	14K	7
9	Brunswick	35.0	Watch	304	7
10	Usmc-Logistics	34.9	Watch	3K	7
11	Augusta-Richmond Co Ws	34.7	Watch	204K	5
12	Cherokee County	34.5	Watch	224K	6
13	Cumming	33.5	Watch	59K	6
14	Covington	32.9	Watch	14K	5
15	Forsyth Co. Water & Sewer	32.8	Watch	161K	5
16	Larchmont Utilities	31.1	Watch	12K	5
17	Dekalb County	30.8	Watch	743K	5
18	Cartersville	30.7	Watch	25K	5
19	Lawrenceville	30.6	Watch	30K	6
20	North Fulton County	30.3	Watch	435K	5

Munimetric tracks infrastructure stress across 236 community drinking-water systems in Georgia, covering compliance conditions, capital needs, revenue and rate pressure, and governance risk. Use this page to research which systems face the highest structural stress and how Georgia compares nationally.

Which water systems in Georgia face the most infrastructure stress?: The highest-stress systems in Georgia are ranked by MISI score above. Stress reflects operational burden, capital gaps, revenue fragility, rate affordability constraints, and governance risk—not a single compliance event. In v0.1.2, the headline composite remains a blended structural stress measure rather than a pure physical-condition index. A frozen national reference and a 50 percent single-factor cap reduce the dominance of near-universal and very rare factors, while the component bars continue to separate infrastructure, socioeconomic, and observability readings.
How does Georgia compare to other states for drinking water infrastructure risk?: Georgia is compared against all 50 states and territories using average MISI score, market count, and band distribution. The state comparison table above shows where Georgia ranks nationally and how its average score compares.
Are there lead pipe or corrosion-related concerns in Georgia water systems?: Where lead and copper rule compliance data is available from EPA SDWA records, Munimetric factors it into the Operational Stress family. Specific lead service line inventories vary by system. Individual system profiles contain the most detailed compliance context available.
What compliance signals are active in Georgia?: Munimetric tracks signals such as compliance escalation, monitoring and reporting failures, data staleness, and financial stress indicators across Georgia systems. The signal frequency table above summarizes which signals are most prevalent statewide.
Does Munimetric track boil water advisories in Georgia?: Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisories, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. Munimetric monitors structural conditions—compliance posture, infrastructure stress, and governance risk—that provide broader context around system reliability.

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Water Infrastructure in Georgia

Munimetric tracks infrastructure stress across 236 community drinking-water systems in Georgia. Each system receives a Munimetric Infrastructure Stress Index (MISI) score from 0 to 100, calculated across five risk families: Operational Stress, Capex Pressure, Revenue Fragility, Rate Constraint, and Governance Risk. Higher scores indicate more structural stress. Scores are source-backed and deterministic, drawing from EPA SDWA compliance records, American Community Survey demographic and economic data, FEMA National Risk Index hazard profiles, and state financial disclosures.

State-level monitoring shows which systems face the highest structural stress, how Georgia compares against other states nationally, and which monitoring signals are most active across the state. Each individual system profile includes compliance history, score family drivers, peer rankings within population-based cohorts where safeguards pass, and public source context. Full provenance cards and source workbench views remain workflow-gated. Munimetric covers community water systems across all 50 states and territories. This is structural risk research—not a water quality rating, advisory feed, or credit rating. Updated May 2026.

The statewide public-record layer adds drinking-water violation categories, PFAS monitoring summaries where stored, lead and copper context, source-water mix, and official record links across covered systems. These records help explain water-system context alongside infrastructure stress without turning Munimetric into a tap-water safety determination.

What is the Munimetric score for Georgia?: Munimetric assigns a state-level average MISI score based on the individual scores of all covered community water systems in Georgia. The state average, band distribution, and market-level rankings are shown on this page. Higher MISI values indicate greater structural stress.
Which water systems in Georgia face the most infrastructure stress?: The state page ranks the highest-stress systems in Georgia by MISI score. Stress reflects operational burden, capital gaps, revenue fragility, rate affordability constraints, and governance risk, not a single compliance event. The headline remains a blended structural stress composite rather than a pure physical-condition index. Workflow actions remain reserved for account access.
How does Georgia compare to other states for drinking water infrastructure risk?: Georgia is compared against all 50 states and territories using average MISI score, market count, and band distribution. Munimetric tracks nationwide coverage across 9,000+ scored service markets.
Are there lead pipe or corrosion-related concerns in Georgia water systems?: Where lead and copper rule compliance data is available from EPA SDWA records, Munimetric factors it into the Operational Stress family score. Specific lead service line inventories vary by system. Individual system profiles contain the most detailed compliance context available.
Does Munimetric include PFAS monitoring context for Georgia water systems?: Munimetric summarizes stored PFAS monitoring context where public contaminant-monitoring records are available. Missing PFAS summaries remain missing records, not non-detections, and this public-record layer does not change the MISI score by itself.
What compliance signals are active in Georgia?: Munimetric tracks signals such as compliance escalation, monitoring and reporting failures, population decline, income erosion, data staleness, and parent-government fiscal stress across Georgia water systems.
Does Munimetric track boil water advisories in Georgia?: Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisories, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. Munimetric monitors structural conditions that provide context around system reliability over time.