Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 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 Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth
Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth serves about 12,736 people through 5,687 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Putnam County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2370000; phone on file: 706-485-4363. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth's lead record
That is up 1.33 ppb from 0.57 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth is 2.5 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.57 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.57 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.57 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 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. Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth's 1.9 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Georgia and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Putnam County
20 other systems share Putnam County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oconee Crossing Ws (Res.& Comm.) | 3,902 | 1.9 ppb |
| Werbls | 2,226 | 1.3 ppb |
| Great Waters At Reynolds Plantation | 1,350 | 1.5 ppb |
| Cedar Cove / Hickory Point Subdivision | 432 | 0.7 ppb |
| Eagles Nest/Parks Mill Landing S/D | 377 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oconee Springs Landing S/D | 327 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alexander Lakes Subdivision | 248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whippoorwill Cove/Loch Haven S/D | 221 | 1.3 ppb |
| Lake Oconee Plantation S/D | 198 | 1.4 ppb |
| Deer Run Mobile Home Park Ii | 181 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eatonton, 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 Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.