Buckhead Plantation, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 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. 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.
Buckhead Plantation at a glance
Buckhead Plantation serves about 25 people through 10 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bulloch County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0310250; phone on file: 912-764-3099. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Buckhead Plantation's lead record
That is up 1.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Buckhead Plantation is 1.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Buckhead Plantation's 1.6 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Georgia and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
118 other systems share Bulloch County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Buckhead Plantation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Statesboro | 36,846 | 1.6 ppb |
| Georgia Southern University | 20,357 | 1.1 ppb |
| Brooklet Water System | 1,456 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burkhalter - Shadowbrook -Talon'S Lake | 1,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Portal Water System | 879 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grove Lakes Subdivision | 855 | 0 (not detected) |
| Forest Heights Subdivision | 835 | 1.3 ppb |
| Countryside-Cypress Crossing-Hazelwood | 697 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stonebrook Subdivision | 575 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunters Point Subdivision | 507 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Statesboro, 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 Buckhead Plantation 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.