Black Creek Farms West, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 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.
About Black Creek Farms West
Black Creek Farms West serves about 319 people through 118 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bryan County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0290013; phone on file: 912-352-9339. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Black Creek Farms West is 4 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Black Creek Farms West's 4 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Georgia and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bryan County
43 other systems share Bryan County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Black Creek Farms West. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Richmond Hill | 16,068 | 1.1 ppb |
| South Atlantic Utilities-Bryan County(S) | 3,553 | 1 ppb |
| Pembroke Water System | 3,402 | 7.3 ppb |
| Henderson Park | 2,962 | 0 (not detected) |
| Strathy Hall Subdivision | 1,185 | 1.2 ppb |
| Bryan County Water System | 1,111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cranston Bluff-Waterford Landing | 975 | 2.1 ppb |
| Oak Level Road Water System | 932 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cape Hardwicke/Ft. Mcallister/Kinsale/Re | 861 | 0 (not detected) |
| Magnolia Creek Plantation/Tayor Place | 589 | 8.9 ppb |
Next steps for Savannah, GA
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 Black Creek Farms West 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.