Horse Creek Farms, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Horse Creek Farms at a glance
Horse Creek Farms serves about 500 people through 180 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Long County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1830062; phone on file: 912-352-9339. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Horse Creek Farms is 20.2 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 20.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.3 ppb |
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. Horse Creek Farms's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 35th percentile in Georgia and the 22nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
51 other systems share Long County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Horse Creek Farms. 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) |
| Garrison Place-Summer Hill | 513 | 5.3 ppb |
| 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 Horse Creek Farms 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.