Roosevelt Warm Springs Inst., GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Roosevelt Warm Springs Inst. at a glance
Roosevelt Warm Springs Inst. serves about 493 people through 65 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Meriwether County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1990009; phone on file: 706-302-0207. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.1 ppb from 2.6 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Roosevelt Warm Springs Inst. is 21 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 21 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 21 ppb over 15 |
How Roosevelt Warm Springs Inst. 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. Roosevelt Warm Springs Inst.'s 1.5 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Georgia and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Meriwether County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Roosevelt Warm Springs Inst.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester | 5,397 | 0 (not detected) |
| Luthersville | 2,468 | 1.2 ppb |
| Greenville | 2,013 | 0.48 ppb |
| Warm Springs | 1,017 | 1.9 ppb |
| Woodbury | 961 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lone Oak Water System | 307 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gay | 167 | 2.5 ppb |
| Whippoorwill Ridge Subdivision | 67 | 4.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Warm Springs, 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 Roosevelt Warm Springs Inst. 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.