Bridlegate S/D, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.6 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 Bridlegate S/D
Bridlegate S/D serves about 68 people through 18 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Oconee County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2190073; phone on file: 706-769-2814. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Bridlegate S/D's lead record
That is down 6.9 ppb from 14.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bridlegate S/D is 15.5 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 14.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
| 2016 | 15.5 ppb over 15 |
How Bridlegate S/D compares
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. Bridlegate S/D's 7.6 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Georgia and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Oconee County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Bridlegate S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oconee County | 30,162 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Bass I (Sc3750002) | 681 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookwood Estates Subdivision | 602 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fieldstone/Canyon Creek Sd | 367 | 4.6 ppb |
| Timber Lake I (Sc3750006) | 283 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwest Woods Subdivision | 238 | 2 ppb |
| Woodlands Subdivision/Oconee Village Apt | 234 | 2.4 ppb |
| Fernwood Subdivision | 218 | 1.2 ppb |
| Port Bass Ii (Sc3750012) | 165 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elder Heights Subdivision | 154 | 5.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Watkinsville, 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 Bridlegate S/D whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3350 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.