Lee Co.Criminal Justice Center, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
About Lee Co.Criminal Justice Center
Lee Co.Criminal Justice Center serves about 246 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lee County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1770074; phone on file: 229-759-6056. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 3.7 ppb from 4.2 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lee Co.Criminal Justice Center is 4.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.2 ppb |
How Lee Co.Criminal Justice Center 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. Lee Co.Criminal Justice Center's 0.5 ppb sits at the 47th percentile in Georgia and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Lee County
13 other systems share Lee County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lee Co.Criminal Justice Center. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lee County Utilities Authority | 20,194 | 1.5 ppb |
| Leesburg | 3,629 | 1.2 ppb |
| Lee State Prison | 886 | 0 (not detected) |
| Smithville | 770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Philema Park Subdivision | 343 | 6 ppb |
| Old Stage Subdivision | 159 | 3.9 ppb |
| Big Oak Estates | 116 | 1.2 ppb |
| North Doublegate Water System | 92 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakeview Mobile Home Park | 86 | 0 (not detected) |
| Doublegate North, Phase Vi | 78 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Leesburg, 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 Lee Co.Criminal Justice Center 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.