Lumber City, 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
Lumber City serves about 977 people through 377 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 Telfair County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2710002; phone on file: 912-363-4942. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lumber City's lead record
That is up 1.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lumber City is 1.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Lumber City's 1.5 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Georgia and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Telfair County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lumber City. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mcrae-Helena | 7,857 | 1.7 ppb |
| Milan | 791 | 4.2 ppb |
| Scotland | 270 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jacksonville | 219 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lumber City, 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 Lumber City 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.