Charlotte Water Association, GA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Charlotte Water Association serves about 87 people through 25 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Montgomery County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2090002; phone on file: 912-293-7292. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 152 ppb from 165 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Charlotte Water Association is 165 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2025 | 165 ppb over 15 |
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2024 | 165 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.6 ppb |
| 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. Charlotte Water Association's 13 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Georgia and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Montgomery County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Charlotte Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon | 3,243 | 1.7 ppb |
| Uvalda | 747 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ailey | 513 | 0.6 ppb |
| Alston | 211 | 0 (not detected) |
| Three Rivers Estates | 138 | 0.23 ppb |
| Wildwood | 125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tarrytown | 115 | 5.5 ppb |
| Lazy River Estates | 105 | 0.57 ppb |
| Riner Mobile Home Park | 85 | 4.1 ppb |
| Williams Mobile Home Park | 62 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Uvalda, 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 Charlotte Water Association 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.