The Oaks Nursing Home, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 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.
The Oaks Nursing Home at a glance
The Oaks Nursing Home serves about 150 people through 2 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Macon County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1930008; phone on file: 478-967-2223. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Oaks Nursing Home is 1.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Georgia systems
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. The Oaks Nursing Home's 1.8 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Georgia and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Macon County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Oaks Nursing Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oglethorpe | 4,129 | 2.1 ppb |
| Montezuma | 4,040 | 4.9 ppb |
| Marshallville | 1,156 | 6.1 ppb |
| Ideal | 550 | 4.5 ppb |
| Peachtree Estates Llc | 48 | 2.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Marshallville, 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 The Oaks Nursing Home 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.