Stapleton, GA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 19 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Stapleton serves about 433 people through 191 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Jefferson County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1630003; phone on file: 706-547-2828. 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 12.5 ppb from 6.5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Stapleton is 19 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 19 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 13.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
How Stapleton compares
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. Stapleton's 19 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Georgia and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Jefferson County
6 other systems share Jefferson County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Stapleton. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Louisville | 5,242 | 5 ppb |
| Wrens | 2,730 | 2.1 ppb |
| Wadley | 2,527 | 10 ppb |
| Avera | 448 | 4.1 ppb |
| Bartow | 419 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brown Terrace Subdivision | 96 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Stapleton 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.