Kelsee Crossing, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (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. 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
Kelsee Crossing serves about 95 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lowndes County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1850333; phone on file: 229-300-0339. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Kelsee Crossing is 4.1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
How Kelsee Crossing 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. Kelsee Crossing's 0.6 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Georgia and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lowndes County
66 other systems share Lowndes County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than Kelsee Crossing. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Valdosta | 48,959 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lowndes Co.-North Lowndes Co. Ws | 16,656 | 1.2 ppb |
| Lowndes Co-South Lowndes | 8,664 | 0 (not detected) |
| Usaf-Moody Air Force Base-Main | 5,325 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hahira | 3,572 | 5.3 ppb |
| Remerton | 1,928 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mulligan Road Water Supply | 905 | 1.5 ppb |
| Oak Street Subdivision | 829 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Park | 740 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lowndes Co.-Creekside West S/D | 667 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Valdosta, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Valdosta, 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 Kelsee Crossing 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.