Meansville, GA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 15 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Meansville
Meansville serves about 338 people through 125 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 Pike County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2310001; phone on file: 770-468-2966. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 28 ppb from 43 ppb in the period ending 2026. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meansville is 43 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2026 | 43 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.5 ppb |
How Meansville 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. Meansville's 15 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Georgia and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Pike County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meansville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Zebulon | 5,407 | 1.6 ppb |
| Pike Co - Rural Delvelopment Division | 1,080 | 1.2 ppb |
| Concord | 751 | 5.4 ppb |
| Williamson | 683 | 0 (not detected) |
| Molena | 437 | 4.7 ppb |
| Stephens Properties | 97 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ga Baptist Children`S Home - Meansville | 51 | 11.8 ppb |
| Teen Challenge | 37 | 4.5 ppb |
Next steps for Meansville, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Meansville, 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 Meansville whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1900 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.