Bearden Estates, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Bearden Estates at a glance
Bearden Estates serves about 54 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Walton County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2970055; phone on file: 706-543-9353. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Bearden Estates's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bearden Estates is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Bearden Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 7th percentile in Georgia and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Walton County
10 other systems share Walton County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bearden Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Walton Co. Water & Sewer Auth. | 45,230 | 3 ppb |
| Monroe | 25,248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Social Circle | 5,470 | 6 ppb |
| Jersey | 435 | 0.6 ppb |
| Hillside Village Mhp, Inc. | 221 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rivermist Subdivision | 97 | 3.3 ppb |
| Mountain Ridge Subdivision | 86 | 1.4 ppb |
| Creekside At Riverstone | 73 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camp Lake Crossing | 54 | 2.4 ppb |
| Wildwood Estates | 46 | 1.3 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Bearden Estates'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 Bearden Estates 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.