Garrison Place-Summer Hill, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.3 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Garrison Place-Summer Hill serves about 513 people through 190 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Long County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1830054; phone on file: 912-352-9339. 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 5.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Garrison Place-Summer Hill is 5.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.7 ppb |
How Garrison Place-Summer Hill 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. Garrison Place-Summer Hill's 5.3 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Georgia and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
51 other systems share Long County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Garrison Place-Summer Hill. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ludowici Water System | 1,651 | 3.3 ppb |
| Crawford Water System | 724 | 0.7 ppb |
| Timberland-Huntington Subdivision | 621 | 0 (not detected) |
| Horse Creek Farms | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakdale Mobile Home Park | 268 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lanier Road Water System | 262 | 4.6 ppb |
| Briarcrest-Palmer Place | 234 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morgan Tract Subdivision | 222 | 0.68 ppb |
| Burnt Pines | 198 | 0.6 ppb |
| Brookhaven Subdivision | 156 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Savannah, 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 Garrison Place-Summer Hill 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.