Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 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.
Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D at a glance
Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D serves about 259 people through 96 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Morgan County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2110009; phone on file: 706-769-2814. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D's lead record
That is down 2.1 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D is 3.2 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.2 ppb |
How Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D 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. Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D's 1.1 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Georgia and the 57th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Morgan County
12 other systems share Morgan County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Madison | 6,427 | 1.2 ppb |
| Rutledge Water System | 993 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bostwick Water System | 484 | 1.5 ppb |
| Kingston On Lake Oconee | 340 | - |
| Buckhead | 332 | 2.05 ppb |
| Appalachee Woods Subdivision | 292 | 3.1 ppb |
| Morgan Estates Subdivision | 161 | 2.4 ppb |
| River Woods On Lake Oconee S/D | 151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Springs S/D | 140 | 0.6 ppb |
| Bell View Shores Subdivision | 73 | 0.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Watkinsville, 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 Sugar Bend-Lake Oconee S/D 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.