Lake Blackshear Area, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Lake Blackshear Area at a glance
Lake Blackshear Area serves about 4,018 people through 1,515 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Crisp County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0810064; phone on file: 229-276-2650. 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 2025 (2.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Blackshear Area is 2.5 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 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. Lake Blackshear Area's 2.1 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Georgia and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Crisp County
12 other systems share Crisp County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Blackshear Area. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cordele | 11,880 | 6.6 ppb |
| Arabi | 480 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riconnuck Knoll Subdivision | 170 | 0.8 ppb |
| Community Water System | 151 | 0.7 ppb |
| Truluck-Sunnybrook Farms Sd | 92 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Lake Estates | 84 | 0.8 ppb |
| Truluck-Timberland Plantation | 81 | 1.6 ppb |
| Truluck-Bran-Tre Subdivision | 59 | 13.1 ppb |
| Truluck-Dogwood Hills Subdivision | 54 | 1.4 ppb |
| Truluck-Oak Park Subdivision | 48 | 0.7 ppb |
Next steps for Cordele, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cordele, 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 Lake Blackshear Area 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.