Blue Springs S/D, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 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. 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 Blue Springs S/D
Blue Springs S/D serves about 140 people through 52 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Morgan County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2110010. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Blue Springs S/D'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 Blue Springs S/D is 20 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 20 ppb over 15 |
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. Blue Springs S/D's 0.6 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Georgia and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Morgan County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blue Springs S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Madison | 6,427 | 1.2 ppb |
| Rutledge Water System | 993 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bostwick Water System | 484 | 1.5 ppb |
| Kingston On Lake Oconee | 340 | - |
| Buckhead | 332 | 2.05 ppb |
| Appalachee Woods Subdivision | 292 | 3.1 ppb |
| Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D | 259 | 1.1 ppb |
| Morgan Estates Subdivision | 161 | 2.4 ppb |
| River Woods On Lake Oconee S/D | 151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bell View Shores Subdivision | 73 | 0.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eatonton, 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 Blue Springs S/D 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.