Fay Drive Bainbridge, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Fay Drive Bainbridge
Fay Drive Bainbridge serves about 260 people through 55 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Decatur County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0870055; phone on file: 229-221-5244. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fay Drive Bainbridge is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
How Fay Drive Bainbridge compares
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. Fay Drive Bainbridge's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 28th percentile in Georgia and the 17th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Decatur County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fay Drive Bainbridge. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bainbridge | 14,500 | 1.2 ppb |
| Decatur County Industrial Park | 1,100 | 2 ppb |
| Attapulgus | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Climax | 397 | 1.25 ppb |
| Brinson | 281 | 0 (not detected) |
| Federated Trust Subdivision Water Sys. | 130 | 18.5 ppb |
| Aryola Bainbridge | 124 | 0 (not detected) |
| Meadowbrook Subdivision | 68 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wright`S Trailer Park | 51 | 2.2 ppb |
Next steps for Thomasville, GA
Look up your address in Fay Drive Bainbridge's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Fay Drive Bainbridge 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.