Mcdonald Village, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7 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. 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.
Mcdonald Village at a glance
Mcdonald Village serves about 44 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Long County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1830031; phone on file: 912-368-9218. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7.8 ppb from 14.8 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mcdonald Village is 60 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 ppb |
| 2023 | 14.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 60 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
How Mcdonald Village 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. Mcdonald Village's 7 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Georgia and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
51 other systems share Long County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mcdonald Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ludowici Water System | 1,651 | 3.3 ppb |
| Crawford Water System | 724 | 0.7 ppb |
| Timberland-Huntington Subdivision | 621 | 0 (not detected) |
| Garrison Place-Summer Hill | 513 | 5.3 ppb |
| Horse Creek Farms | 500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oakdale Mobile Home Park | 268 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lanier Road Water System | 262 | 4.6 ppb |
| Briarcrest-Palmer Place | 234 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morgan Tract Subdivision | 222 | 0.68 ppb |
| Burnt Pines | 198 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Allenhurst, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Allenhurst, 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 Mcdonald Village 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.