Echols County, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.1 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Echols County serves about 972 people through 364 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 Echols County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1010000; phone on file: 229-559-6538. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.6 ppb from 3.5 ppb in the period ending 2026. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Echols County is 36 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2026 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 36 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 36 ppb over 15 |
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. Echols County's 7.1 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Georgia and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
1 other system shares Echols County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Echols County. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Little River Estates Mhp | 54 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Statenville, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Statenville, 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 Echols County 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.