Social Circle, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 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.
Social Circle at a glance
Social Circle serves about 5,470 people through 2,026 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Walton County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2970002; phone on file: 770-464-6908. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 4.9 ppb from 1.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Social Circle is 6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 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. Social Circle's 6 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Georgia and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Walton County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Social Circle. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Walton Co. Water & Sewer Auth. | 45,230 | 3 ppb |
| Monroe | 25,248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jersey | 435 | 0.6 ppb |
| Hillside Village Mhp, Inc. | 221 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rivermist Subdivision | 97 | 3.3 ppb |
| Mountain Ridge Subdivision | 86 | 1.4 ppb |
| Creekside At Riverstone | 73 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camp Lake Crossing | 54 | 2.4 ppb |
| Bearden Estates | 54 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood Estates | 46 | 1.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Social Circle, 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 Social Circle 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.