Picket Landing, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
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 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.
Who runs the water here
Picket Landing serves about 52 people through 21 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Glynn County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1270175; phone on file: 912-352-9339. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Picket Landing is 52.5 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 8.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 9.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 52.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 29.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 3 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. Picket Landing's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Georgia and the 4th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Glynn County
45 other systems share Glynn County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Picket Landing. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Brunswick | 44,739 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Simons Island | 29,249 | 2.3 ppb |
| Glynn Co.-South Main Land | 2,554 | 1.2 ppb |
| Jekyll Island Authority | 2,541 | 7.8 ppb |
| Sea Island Company | 2,000 | 1.8 ppb |
| Oak Grove Island Plantation | 775 | 2.9 ppb |
| Deerfield Park | 538 | 0 (not detected) |
| Emanuel Church/Silver Bluff/Avondale | 497 | 0 (not detected) |
| Valerie Subdivision | 376 | 0 (not detected) |
| Epworth Acres Water System | 328 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
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 Picket Landing 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.