Bowersville, GA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 23 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
About Bowersville
Bowersville serves about 594 people through 195 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Hart County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1470008; phone on file: 706-436-4119. 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 21.8 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bowersville is 23 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.3 ppb |
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. Bowersville's 23 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Georgia and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Hart County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bowersville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hartwell | 8,129 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hart Co. Water & Sewer Auth. | 5,637 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sanders Mobile Home Park | 332 | 1.3 ppb |
| Reed Creek S/D | 242 | 5.9 ppb |
| Reed Creek Point/Reed Creek Heights | 216 | 2.9 ppb |
| Mcmullen Subdivision | 135 | 2.2 ppb |
| Paradise Pt-Rocky Point | 111 | 17 ppb |
| Vickery Point Subdivision | 111 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ridgeview Estates Sd | 111 | 0.6 ppb |
| Chateau Estates Subdivision | 88 | 13.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Bowersville 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.