Pickens County Water Auth., GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
Who runs the water here
Pickens County Water Auth. serves about 7,153 people through 2,751 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Pickens County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2270002; phone on file: 706-253-8723. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.4 ppb from 1.4 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pickens County Water Auth. is 1.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
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. Pickens County Water Auth.'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 43rd percentile in Georgia and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share Pickens County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Pickens County Water Auth.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Jasper | 14,435 | 0 (not detected) |
| Big Canoe Subdivision | 7,606 | 1.5 ppb |
| Bent Tree | 3,185 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Pickens County Water Auth.'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 Pickens County Water Auth. 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.