Oak Level Road Water System, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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 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.
About Oak Level Road Water System
Oak Level Road Water System serves about 932 people through 345 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Bryan County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0290105; phone on file: 912-756-7953. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Oak Level Road Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2023 (0.45 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oak Level Road Water System is 15 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.45 ppb |
| 2020 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Oak Level Road Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 38th percentile in Georgia and the 26th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
43 other systems share Bryan County; 23 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oak Level Road Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Richmond Hill | 16,068 | 1.1 ppb |
| South Atlantic Utilities-Bryan County(S) | 3,553 | 1 ppb |
| Pembroke Water System | 3,402 | 7.3 ppb |
| Henderson Park | 2,962 | 0 (not detected) |
| Strathy Hall Subdivision | 1,185 | 1.2 ppb |
| Bryan County Water System | 1,111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cranston Bluff-Waterford Landing | 975 | 2.1 ppb |
| Cape Hardwicke/Ft. Mcallister/Kinsale/Re | 861 | 0 (not detected) |
| Magnolia Creek Plantation/Tayor Place | 589 | 8.9 ppb |
| Black Creek Golf-Brewton Acres | 541 | 0.7 ppb |
Next steps for Pembroke, GA
Look up your address in Oak Level Road Water System'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 Oak Level Road Water System 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.