WATER: Effingham County supplies drinking water from two different sources, groundwater wells that withdraw from the Upper Floridan Aquifer and treated surface water purchased from the City of Savannah.  For the majority of our customers, water is piped into the county from the Savannah I&D plant.  Several small outlying developments are supplied by groundwater well systems.  All potable water is tested for quality on a routine basis by Effingham County staff, all of which are State-Certified Operators.  A report of this quality testing is sent to the State's Environmental Protection Division on a monthly basis.  You can access our drinking water Permits and annual Consumer Confidence Reports under the Documents and Links page.

WASTEWATER: Effingham County also has a Wastewater Reclamation Facility that is a non-discharging, tertiary treatment plant.  Non-discharging means it does not discharge any treated water into rivers, streams, lakes or canals.  Instead, this water is returned to customers to be re-used for irrigation and industrial purposes.  It is not to be used for children's sprinklers or wading pools, nor for swimming pools or watering animals.  The re-use water produced is constantly monitored by our State-Certified Operators to make sure that it meets the standards given to the facility by the State's Environmental Protection Division.  Reports on reuse water quality are submitted to EPD on a monthly basis.  More information on re-use water is available on the Documents and Links page.

To access a map of the Effingham County water, sewer, and reuse system, please click this link: WSRmap42x44.pdf.