Backflow testing in Georgia
1 utility list · 51 companies. Your utility decides which testers it accepts, so start from the utility that sent your notice.
Utility lists in Georgia
| Utility list | Area | Companies | Testers | vs national median | National rank (by companies) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities | Athens | 51 | Company-level list | 0.9× | 18 of 33 |
Computed from the list of Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities, as fetched 2026-11-04 (UTC). National median: 57 companies per list across the 33 utility lists we hold (n=33). National rank 1 = the list naming the most companies; equal counts share a rank. Testers: only lists that name each company's testers carry a count. Not in the company counts: 1 entry for a company named after a person; we count those but do not republish them.
How current each list is
| Utility list | Version as printed | Date and age | Fetched (UTC) | We re-check it every |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities | “Updated 2026-02-04” | 2026-02-04 (dated on the list), 273 days before we fetched it; 16 of 22 by recency | 2026-11-04 | 365 days |
Computed from the list of Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities, as fetched 2026-11-04 (UTC). Median age at fetch across the 22 lists we hold that carry a date: 206 days (n=22); rank 1 = the most recently dated list. A month-only or two-digit version (for example “7.2026”) is shown as printed and not turned into a date.
Where the listed companies are based
The Georgia list prints no town for the companies; this counts the area codes of their phone numbers instead: 51 of 51 companies show a phone here, with 6 area codes. The most common:
- Area code 770: 17 companies
- Area code 678: 13 companies
- Area code 706: 13 companies
- Area code 404: 4 companies
- Area code 470: 3 companies
- Area code 201: 1 company
Computed from the list of Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities, as fetched 2026-11-04 (UTC). Area codes of the company phone numbers we publish; a company named on two lists counts once.
Companies on more than one list
Also on a utility list in another state: 1 company (Florida).
Computed from the list of Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities, as fetched 2026-11-04 (UTC). Matched by our company record (same name plus a shared ZIP code or phone number on the lists).
What kind of businesses are on the lists
The biggest difference from all the lists we hold: “fire” appears in 24% of company names on the Georgia list, against 17% across all of them.
| Company name contains | Companies (51) | Share | Share, all 2,590 companies we hold |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plumbing | 14 | 27% | 25% |
| Backflow or cross-connection | 15 | 29% | 24% |
| Fire | 12 | 24% | 17% |
| Irrigation, lawn, landscape or sprinkler | 3 | 6% | 10% |
| Mechanical, heating or air | 1 | 2% | 6% |
Computed from the list of Athens-Clarke County Public Utilities, as fetched 2026-11-04 (UTC). A company named on two lists counts once. A name can match more than one row; 9 names here match none. The words say nothing about the quality of the work.
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