Meriwether-Golden Pond Subdivision, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Meriwether-Golden Pond Subdivision at a glance
Meriwether-Golden Pond Subdivision serves about 124 people through 46 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Baldwin County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0090042. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meriwether-Golden Pond Subdivision is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
How Meriwether-Golden Pond Subdivision 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. Meriwether-Golden Pond Subdivision's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Georgia and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
4 other systems share Baldwin County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Meriwether-Golden Pond Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Baldwin County | 23,067 | 2.1 ppb |
| Milledgeville | 20,540 | 1.1 ppb |
| Lands End Subdivision | 59 | 1 ppb |
| Baldwin Forest Subdivision | 30 | 4.3 ppb |
Next steps for Eatonton, GA
Look up your address in Meriwether-Golden Pond Subdivision's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Meriwether-Golden Pond Subdivision 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.