Bostwick Water System, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Bostwick Water System at a glance
Bostwick Water System serves about 484 people through 186 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Morgan County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2110000; phone on file: 706-343-0065. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Bostwick Water System's lead record
That is down 4.1 ppb from 5.6 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bostwick Water System is 139.5 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 139.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 31.6 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.1 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. Bostwick Water System's 1.5 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Georgia and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Morgan County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bostwick Water System. 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) |
| 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) |
| Blue Springs S/D | 140 | 0.6 ppb |
| Bell View Shores Subdivision | 73 | 0.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bostwick, 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 Bostwick Water System 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.