Poulan, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
About Poulan
Poulan serves about 1,072 people through 409 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 groundwater, in Worth County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA3210001; phone on file: 229-776-4097. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Poulan is 2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2 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. Poulan's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 38th percentile in Georgia and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Worth County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Poulan. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sylvester | 7,076 | 2.2 ppb |
| Sumner | 662 | 1.9 ppb |
| Warwick | 408 | 3.2 ppb |
| Worthy Manor Subdivision | 400 | 1.6 ppb |
| Woodcrest Subdivision | 176 | 0 (not detected) |
| Redrock Estates | 140 | 0 (not detected) |
| Orchard Hill Estates | 68 | 0 (not detected) |
| Park Place Subdivision | 49 | 1.2 ppb |
| Countryside Estates | 26 | - |
Your move
Look up your address in Poulan'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 Poulan 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.