Collins Water System, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Collins Water System serves about 780 people through 302 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 groundwater, in Tattnall County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2670001; phone on file: 912-693-2581. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Collins Water System's lead record
That is down 1.2 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Collins Water System is 2.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 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. Collins Water System's 1 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Georgia and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Tattnall County
10 other systems share Tattnall County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Collins Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Glennville Water System | 5,173 | 0 (not detected) |
| Reidsville Water System | 2,594 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rogers State Prison | 1,588 | 9.2 ppb |
| Cobbtown Water System | 596 | 2 ppb |
| Beards Creek Mhp | 307 | 0 (not detected) |
| Manassas | 133 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fairhaven Mobile Home Park | 62 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Oaks Subdivision | 57 | 0 (not detected) |
| Manassas Station | 47 | 0 (not detected) |
| Savana Woods Mobile Home Park | 39 | 0.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Collins, 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 Collins 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.