Pike Co - Rural Delvelopment Division, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 ppb (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.
Who runs the water here
Pike Co - Rural Delvelopment Division serves about 1,080 people through 450 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 surface water, in Pike County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2310027; phone on file: 770-567-7287. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pike Co - Rural Delvelopment Division is 16 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 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. Pike Co - Rural Delvelopment Division's 1.2 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Georgia and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Pike County
8 other systems share Pike County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pike Co - Rural Delvelopment Division. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Zebulon | 5,407 | 1.6 ppb |
| Concord | 751 | 5.4 ppb |
| Williamson | 683 | 0 (not detected) |
| Molena | 437 | 4.7 ppb |
| Meansville | 338 | 15 ppb |
| Stephens Properties | 97 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ga Baptist Children`S Home - Meansville | 51 | 11.8 ppb |
| Teen Challenge | 37 | 4.5 ppb |
Next steps for Zebulon, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Zebulon, 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 Pike Co - Rural Delvelopment Division 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.