Lowndes Co.-Alapaha Plantation S/D, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Lowndes Co.-Alapaha Plantation S/D serves about 362 people through 134 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 Lowndes County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1850274; phone on file: 229-561-0360. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.9 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lowndes Co.-Alapaha Plantation S/D is 18.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 18.1 ppb over 15 |
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. Lowndes Co.-Alapaha Plantation S/D's 1.9 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Georgia and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
66 other systems share Lowndes County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lowndes Co.-Alapaha Plantation S/D. 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) |
What to do in your house
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 Lowndes Co.-Alapaha Plantation S/D 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.