Piney Grove Subdivision, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Piney Grove Subdivision
Piney Grove Subdivision serves about 81 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Colquitt County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0710038; phone on file: 229-891-7554. 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 1.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Piney Grove Subdivision is 1.1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Piney Grove Subdivision compares
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. Piney Grove Subdivision's 1.1 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Georgia and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
30 other systems share Colquitt County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Piney Grove Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Moultrie | 17,067 | 2.4 ppb |
| Norman Park | 1,134 | 1.1 ppb |
| Doerun | 1,094 | 0 (not detected) |
| Funston | 653 | 2.5 ppb |
| Berlin | 643 | 0.8 ppb |
| Spencefield Airport | 544 | 2 ppb |
| Bear Creek Subdivision | 464 | 1.8 ppb |
| Tallokas Trails/Circle | 443 | 12 ppb |
| Riverwood Subdivision | 413 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ellenton | 359 | 6.3 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Norman Park, 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 Piney Grove 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.