Houston County-Haynesville, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 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
Houston County-Haynesville serves about 1,847 people through 687 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Houston County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1530004; phone on file: 478-452-2115. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 4.5 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Houston County-Haynesville is 6 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 6 ppb |
Against other Georgia systems
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. Houston County-Haynesville's 1.5 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Georgia and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Houston County
6 other systems share Houston County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Houston County-Haynesville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Houston County-Feagin Mill | 92,971 | 0 (not detected) |
| Warner Robins | 83,705 | 1.8 ppb |
| Perry | 35,493 | 0.35 ppb |
| Usaf-Robins Ab Main | 22,486 | 1.49 ppb |
| Centerville | 14,701 | 1.3 ppb |
| Houston County-Henderson | 1,253 | 2.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Warner Robins, 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 Houston County-Haynesville 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.