Taylor Co.-Potterville Comm., GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.36 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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
Taylor Co.-Potterville Comm. serves about 103 people through 39 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 Taylor County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2690005; phone on file: 478-862-3336. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2018 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Taylor Co.-Potterville Comm. is 0.36 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.36 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Taylor Co.-Potterville Comm. 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. Taylor Co.-Potterville Comm.'s 0.36 ppb sits at the 46th percentile in Georgia and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Taylor County
3 other systems share Taylor County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Taylor Co.-Potterville Comm.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Butler | 4,518 | 0 (not detected) |
| Reynolds | 1,301 | 6 ppb |
| Georgia Recovery Campus Llc | 185 | - |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Butler, 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 Taylor Co.-Potterville Comm. 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.