Ailey, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Ailey
Ailey serves about 513 people through 190 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Montgomery County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2090000; phone on file: 912-583-2465. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ailey is 11.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 7.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 7.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Georgia systems
Of the 1,681 Georgia systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.68 ppb; 15 are over 15 ppb right now and 131 have gone over at some point. Ailey's 0.6 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Georgia and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Montgomery County
10 other systems share Montgomery County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ailey. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon | 3,243 | 1.7 ppb |
| Uvalda | 747 | 2.2 ppb |
| Alston | 211 | 0 (not detected) |
| Three Rivers Estates | 138 | 0.23 ppb |
| Wildwood | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tarrytown | 115 | 5.5 ppb |
| Lazy River Estates | 105 | 0.57 ppb |
| Charlotte Water Association | 87 | 13 ppb |
| Riner Mobile Home Park | 85 | 4.1 ppb |
| Williams Mobile Home Park | 62 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Ailey, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ailey, GA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Ailey whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.