Newton Plantation, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.2 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Newton Plantation
Newton Plantation serves about 338 people through 130 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fayette County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1130008; phone on file: 770-316-8431. 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 up 2.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Newton Plantation is 3.2 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Georgia systems
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. Newton Plantation's 2.2 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Georgia and the 75th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Fayette County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Newton Plantation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Fayette County | 86,934 | 1.3 ppb |
| Fayetteville | 15,281 | 1.2 ppb |
| Brooks | 595 | 1.9 ppb |
| Dix Lee`On Estates | 556 | 0 (not detected) |
| Rolling Meadows Estates | 299 | 0 (not detected) |
| Line Creek Estates | 252 | 0 (not detected) |
| Starrs Mill Ridge Subdivision | 135 | 56.5 ppb |
| Fernwood Mobile Home Park | 94 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fayette Mobile Home Park | 78 | 2.1 ppb |
| Long`S Mobile Home Park | 78 | - |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jackson, 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 Newton Plantation whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3850 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.