South Side Water System, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.7 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.
Who runs the water here
South Side Water System serves about 55 people through 18 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Bulloch County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0310221; 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
That is up 2.7 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Side Water System is 2.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
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. South Side Water System's 2.7 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Georgia and the 79th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Bulloch County
118 other systems share Bulloch County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Side Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Statesboro | 36,846 | 1.6 ppb |
| Georgia Southern University | 20,357 | 1.1 ppb |
| Brooklet Water System | 1,456 | 0 (not detected) |
| Burkhalter - Shadowbrook -Talon'S Lake | 1,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Portal Water System | 879 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grove Lakes Subdivision | 855 | 0 (not detected) |
| Forest Heights Subdivision | 835 | 1.3 ppb |
| Countryside-Cypress Crossing-Hazelwood | 697 | 0 (not detected) |
| Stonebrook Subdivision | 575 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hunters Point Subdivision | 507 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Savannah, 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 South Side Water System 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.