Sapelo Woods Subdivision, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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.
Who runs the water here
Sapelo Woods Subdivision serves about 348 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 Mcintosh County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1910008; phone on file: 912-290-1422. 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 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sapelo Woods Subdivision is 33 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 33 ppb over 15 |
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. Sapelo Woods Subdivision'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.
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Mcintosh County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sapelo Woods Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mcintosh County-Crescent Community Ws | 3,406 | 0 (not detected) |
| Darien Water System | 3,242 | 0 (not detected) |
| John Alford Subdivision | 989 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcintosh County-Carnigan Community | 540 | 0 (not detected) |
| Springfield Plantation Subdivision | 360 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dnr-Hog Hammock Community | 304 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sapelo Ridge/Poppell Farms Subdivision | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cooper`S Point / Sutherland Bluff | 299 | 3.5 ppb |
| Mcintosh County - Cannon Bluff | 296 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belvedere Island | 283 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for Townsend, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Townsend, 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 Sapelo Woods 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.