Quitman Water & Sewer Auth., GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.27 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Quitman Water & Sewer Auth. at a glance
Quitman Water & Sewer Auth. serves about 1,040 people through 386 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 Quitman County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2390008; phone on file: 229-334-4600. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.22 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Quitman Water & Sewer Auth. is 0.27 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.27 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.22 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Quitman Water & Sewer Auth.'s 0.27 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Georgia and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Quitman County
4 other systems share Quitman County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Quitman Water & Sewer Auth.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Georgetown | 999 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bonaparte`S Retreat, Inc. | 554 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chattahoochee Plantation Ests. | 472 | 0.7 ppb |
| Bcb Waterworks | 392 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Georgetown, 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 Quitman Water & Sewer 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.