Big Canoe Subdivision, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Big Canoe Subdivision
Big Canoe Subdivision serves about 7,606 people through 2,843 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Pickens County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2270004; phone on file: 912-313-1977. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 6.2 ppb from 7.7 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Big Canoe Subdivision is 16 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 7.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 7.3 ppb |
| 2016 | 16 ppb over 15 |
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. Big Canoe Subdivision's 1.5 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Georgia and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share Pickens County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Big Canoe Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jasper | 14,435 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pickens County Water Auth. | 7,153 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bent Tree | 3,185 | 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 Big Canoe 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.