Altamaha Acres, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Altamaha Acres at a glance
Altamaha Acres serves about 232 people through 86 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Wayne County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA3050086; phone on file: 912-352-9339. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Altamaha Acres's lead record
That is down 1.2 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Altamaha Acres is 1.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.7 ppb |
| 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. Altamaha Acres's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 27th percentile in Georgia and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
17 other systems share Wayne County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Altamaha Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jesup Water System | 10,055 | 1.7 ppb |
| Screven | 1,043 | 1 ppb |
| Seminole Woods | 780 | 0 (not detected) |
| Odum | 692 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverside Acres Mhp | 270 | 0 (not detected) |
| Spring Grove Acres Subdivision | 242 | 1.9 ppb |
| Quail Run Mobile Home Park | 168 | 2.2 ppb |
| Timber Ridge Estates | 135 | 5 ppb |
| Westberry Rentals | 91 | 0 (not detected) |
| Retreat At Post Road | 87 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Altamaha Acres's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Altamaha Acres 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.