Pennington Estates Subdivision, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Pennington Estates Subdivision at a glance
Pennington Estates Subdivision serves about 49 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Effingham County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1030157; phone on file: 912-352-9339. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Pennington Estates Subdivision's lead record
That is down 1.8 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pennington Estates Subdivision is 18.1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 18.1 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 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. Pennington Estates Subdivision's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in Georgia and the 3rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
68 other systems share Effingham County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pennington Estates Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rincon Water System | 16,654 | 1 ppb |
| Effingham County Surface Water System | 12,293 | 1.2 ppb |
| Springfield | 3,100 | 3.9 ppb |
| Guyton | 2,394 | 0 (not detected) |
| Westwood Heights Subdivision | 1,370 | 0 (not detected) |
| Azalea Point | 1,037 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakeside Farms / Bloomingdale | 993 | 0 (not detected) |
| Conifer Crossing/Pine Hill | 759 | 0 (not detected) |
| Foxbow Farms | 723 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hickory Knob Subdivision | 671 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Savannah, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Savannah, 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 Pennington Estates 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.