Tifton-Tift County Water System, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Tifton-Tift County Water System at a glance
Tifton-Tift County Water System serves about 27,589 people through 11,951 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Tift County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2770001; phone on file: 229-391-3937. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.1 ppb from 1.1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tifton-Tift County Water System is 1.1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Tifton-Tift County Water System 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. Tifton-Tift County Water System's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 45th percentile in Georgia and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
7 other systems share Tift County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tifton-Tift County Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Abraham Baldwin Agri. College | 4,405 | 2.8 ppb |
| Omega | 1,436 | 2.6 ppb |
| Ty Ty | 929 | 1.4 ppb |
| Pebble Hill Estates S/D | 365 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverbend Estates | 221 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bar W Mobile Home Park | 54 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pleasant Grove Mobile Home Pk | 51 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Tifton-Tift County Water System's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Tifton-Tift County Water System 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.