Satilla Regional Water & Sewer Auth., GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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
Satilla Regional Water & Sewer Auth. serves about 10,657 people through 4,099 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Ware County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2990001; phone on file: 912-287-4366. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Satilla Regional Water & Sewer Auth.'s lead record
That is down 1.8 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Satilla Regional Water & Sewer Auth. is 17 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 2.7 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. Satilla Regional Water & Sewer Auth.'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 44th percentile in Georgia and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Ware County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Satilla Regional Water & Sewer Auth.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Waycross | 15,987 | 0.75 ppb |
| Satilla Regional Water & Sewer Auth-East | 3,654 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waycross-Ware County Ind. Park | 1,716 | 1.7 ppb |
| Manor Water Association | 611 | 0 (not detected) |
| Baptist Village | 308 | 1.2 ppb |
Next steps for Waycross, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Waycross, 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 Satilla Regional 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.