East Ocmulgee Acres S/D, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.8 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
East Ocmulgee Acres S/D at a glance
East Ocmulgee Acres S/D serves about 81 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Twiggs County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2890008; phone on file: 478-731-9202. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.7 ppb from 2.1 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Ocmulgee Acres S/D is 6.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.1 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. East Ocmulgee Acres S/D's 6.8 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Georgia and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Twiggs County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than East Ocmulgee Acres S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jeffersonville | 1,988 | 2.8 ppb |
| Danville | 383 | 1.5 ppb |
| Twiggs County Hwy 96/I16 | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Twiggs County- General Twiggs Drive | 92 | 0.5 ppb |
| Pavati Water Company, Llc | 49 | 8.7 ppb |
| Twiggs Co.-Blackbottom Ws | 46 | 4.6 ppb |
| Twiggs Co.-Kaolin Heights S/D | 41 | 5.2 ppb |
| Marion Estates Subdivision | 30 | 4.3 ppb |
Next steps for Macon, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Macon, 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 East Ocmulgee Acres S/D 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.