Harrison Militia District, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Harrison Militia District
Harrison Militia District serves about 283 people through 109 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Madison County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1950073; phone on file: 706-202-6526. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Harrison Militia District's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Harrison Militia District is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Harrison Militia District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 29th percentile in Georgia and the 18th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
21 other systems share Madison County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Harrison Militia District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Madison County Water System | 4,663 | 3.5 ppb |
| Comer | 1,531 | 4.5 ppb |
| Colbert Water System | 1,374 | 13 ppb |
| Danielsville | 1,022 | 1.5 ppb |
| Brown Brothers Farm Subdivision | 656 | 3.8 ppb |
| Ila | 532 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carlton | 419 | 3 ppb |
| Westbrook / Norwood Village S/D | 416 | 6.2 ppb |
| Apple Acres-Kingston-Gatewood | 308 | 0 (not detected) |
| Double A Farm & Livestock Llc | 300 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in Harrison Militia District'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 Harrison Militia District 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.