Dnr-Hog Hammock Community, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Dnr-Hog Hammock Community at a glance
Dnr-Hog Hammock Community serves about 304 people through 124 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Mcintosh County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1910015; phone on file: 912-262-3173. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Dnr-Hog Hammock Community's lead record
Against the period ending 2017 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dnr-Hog Hammock Community is 19.7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 19.7 ppb over 15 |
Where this result ranks
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. Dnr-Hog Hammock Community's 0.8 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Georgia and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
31 other systems share Mcintosh County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dnr-Hog Hammock Community. 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) |
| Darien Water System | 3,242 | 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) |
| 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Brunswick, 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 Dnr-Hog Hammock Community 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.