Dudley, GA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 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. 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.
Dudley at a glance
Dudley serves about 1,994 people through 315 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 Laurens County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1750003; phone on file: 478-676-3495. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Dudley's lead record
That is up 2.2 ppb from 8.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dudley is 11 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 8.8 ppb |
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. Dudley's 11 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Georgia and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
17 other systems share Laurens County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dudley. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 15,392 | 9.7 ppb |
| East Dublin | 4,536 | 1.5 ppb |
| Dexter | 2,097 | 2.2 ppb |
| Rentz | 1,864 | 2 ppb |
| Holly Hills Subdivision | 645 | 1.86 ppb |
| Cadwell | 617 | 1.6 ppb |
| Montrose | 246 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunter'S Point Apartments | 208 | 0 (not detected) |
| Thundering Springs Assoc.,Inc. | 189 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hitchiti Mobile Home Park | 122 | 0.8 ppb |
Next steps for Dudley, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dudley, 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 Dudley 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.