Beaver Dam Estates, 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.
Who runs the water here
Beaver Dam Estates serves about 124 people through 46 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Putnam County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2370064; phone on file: 706-769-2814. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Beaver Dam Estates's lead record
That is down 1.2 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beaver Dam Estates is 2.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.9 ppb |
How Beaver Dam Estates compares
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. Beaver Dam Estates's 0.6 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Georgia and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
20 other systems share Putnam County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Beaver Dam Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth | 12,736 | 1.9 ppb |
| Oconee Crossing Ws (Res.& Comm.) | 3,902 | 1.9 ppb |
| Werbls | 2,226 | 1.3 ppb |
| Great Waters At Reynolds Plantation | 1,350 | 1.5 ppb |
| Cedar Cove / Hickory Point Subdivision | 432 | 0.7 ppb |
| Eagles Nest/Parks Mill Landing S/D | 377 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oconee Springs Landing S/D | 327 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alexander Lakes Subdivision | 248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whippoorwill Cove/Loch Haven S/D | 221 | 1.3 ppb |
| Lake Oconee Plantation S/D | 198 | 1.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Watkinsville, 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 Beaver Dam 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.