Hollands And Hatcher S/D, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
Who runs the water here
Hollands And Hatcher S/D serves about 51 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Dougherty County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0950011; phone on file: 912-622-1977. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 11.3 ppb from 12.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hollands And Hatcher S/D is 12.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 12.7 ppb over 10 |
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. Hollands And Hatcher S/D's 1.4 ppb sits at the 63rd percentile in Georgia and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dougherty County
5 other systems share Dougherty County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hollands And Hatcher S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Albany | 101,245 | 2.2 ppb |
| Usmc-Logistics | 3,350 | 3.1 ppb |
| Hollands Folly Subdivision #1 | 356 | 2.5 ppb |
| Creekside Rv Park | 240 | 1.5 ppb |
| Carver Subdivision | 111 | 0.8 ppb |
Next steps for Savannah, GA
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 Hollands And Hatcher S/D 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.