Darien Water System, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Darien Water System
Darien Water System serves about 3,242 people through 1,202 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 Mcintosh County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1910000; phone on file: 912-437-6686. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2019 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Darien Water System is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 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. Darien Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 41st percentile in Georgia and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Mcintosh County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Darien Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mcintosh County-Crescent Community Ws | 3,406 | 0 (not detected) |
| John Alford Subdivision | 989 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcintosh County-Carnigan Community | 540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Springfield Plantation Subdivision | 360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sapelo Woods Subdivision | 348 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dnr-Hog Hammock Community | 304 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sapelo Ridge/Poppell Farms Subdivision | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cooper`S Point / Sutherland Bluff | 299 | 3.5 ppb |
| Mcintosh County - Cannon Bluff | 296 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belvedere Island | 283 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for Darien, GA
Look up your address in Darien Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Darien 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.