Appalachee Woods Subdivision, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Appalachee Woods Subdivision serves about 292 people through 112 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Morgan County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2110011. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.2 ppb from 1.9 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Appalachee Woods Subdivision is 3.1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.9 ppb |
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. Appalachee Woods Subdivision's 3.1 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Georgia and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Morgan County
12 other systems share Morgan County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Appalachee Woods Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Madison | 6,427 | 1.2 ppb |
| Rutledge Water System | 993 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bostwick Water System | 484 | 1.5 ppb |
| Kingston On Lake Oconee | 340 | - |
| Buckhead | 332 | 2.05 ppb |
| Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D | 259 | 1.1 ppb |
| Morgan Estates Subdivision | 161 | 2.4 ppb |
| River Woods On Lake Oconee S/D | 151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Springs S/D | 140 | 0.6 ppb |
| Bell View Shores Subdivision | 73 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Eatonton, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eatonton, 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 Appalachee Woods Subdivision 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.