Crawford, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.5 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.
About Crawford
Crawford serves about 1,170 people through 452 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 Oglethorpe County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2210000; phone on file: 706-743-5260. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (4.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Crawford is 5.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.8 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. Crawford's 5.5 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Georgia and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Oglethorpe County
18 other systems share Oglethorpe County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Crawford. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Arnoldsville | 1,763 | 1.6 ppb |
| Lexington | 1,015 | 2.7 ppb |
| Pine Ridge Subdivision | 313 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maxeys | 281 | 4.2 ppb |
| Pinewood Hills Subdivision | 161 | 19 ppb |
| The Estates At Hawks Landing Ws | 146 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smokey Road Water System | 143 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakwood Subdivision | 130 | 1.1 ppb |
| Farm Junction Subdivision | 122 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Bridges Subdivision | 97 | 68 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Crawford, 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 Crawford 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.