Bedford Acres, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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.
Bedford Acres at a glance
Bedford Acres serves about 31 people through 12 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Glynn County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1270180; phone on file: 912-352-9339. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Bedford Acres's lead record
That is down 8.5 ppb from 10.2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bedford Acres is 10.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 10.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 2.4 ppb |
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. Bedford Acres's 1.7 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Georgia and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
45 other systems share Glynn County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bedford Acres. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brunswick | 44,739 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Simons Island | 29,249 | 2.3 ppb |
| Glynn Co.-South Main Land | 2,554 | 1.2 ppb |
| Jekyll Island Authority | 2,541 | 7.8 ppb |
| Sea Island Company | 2,000 | 1.8 ppb |
| Oak Grove Island Plantation | 775 | 2.9 ppb |
| Deerfield Park | 538 | 0 (not detected) |
| Emanuel Church/Silver Bluff/Avondale | 497 | 0 (not detected) |
| Valerie Subdivision | 376 | 0 (not detected) |
| Epworth Acres Water System | 328 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Savannah, 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 Bedford 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. 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.