River Place Plantation, 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.
Who runs the water here
River Place Plantation serves about 350 people through 129 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Camden County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0390059; phone on file: 912-352-9339. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for River Place Plantation is 5.95 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 5.95 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.3 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. River Place Plantation's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 32nd percentile in Georgia and the 20th 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 Camden County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than River Place Plantation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Kingsland | 25,245 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Marys | 19,994 | 1 ppb |
| Usn-Kings Bay Submarine Base | 9,730 | 11 ppb |
| Woodbine | 1,512 | 1.7 ppb |
| Sanctuary Cove Water System | 1,018 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elliott`S Bluff | 419 | 0 (not detected) |
| Davis Bluff Estates | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camden Co.-Flea Hill Recreation, Inc. | 90 | 0 (not detected) |
| Estates At Sanctuary Cove | 47 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Savannah, GA
Look up your address in River Place Plantation'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 River Place Plantation 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.