Nettles Branch Subdivision, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.4 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Nettles Branch Subdivision at a glance
Nettles Branch Subdivision serves about 62 people through 24 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: GA1830043; phone on file: 912-832-2588. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.7 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nettles Branch Subdivision is 3.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.7 ppb |
How Nettles Branch 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. Nettles Branch Subdivision's 3.4 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Georgia and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Long County
51 other systems share Long County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nettles Branch Subdivision. 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 Townsend, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Townsend, 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 Nettles Branch 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. 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.