Spaulding Point Subdivision, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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
Spaulding Point Subdivision serves about 55 people through 22 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: GA1910096; 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.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Spaulding Point Subdivision is 2.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.7 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. Spaulding Point Subdivision's 1.6 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Georgia and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Mcintosh County
31 other systems share Mcintosh County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Spaulding Point 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) |
| Sapelo Woods Subdivision | 348 | 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) |
Next steps for Savannah, GA
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 Spaulding Point 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.