Usa-Hunter Army Airfield - Main, GA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Usa-Hunter Army Airfield - Main at a glance
Usa-Hunter Army Airfield - Main serves about 7,500 people through 796 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Chatham County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0510107; phone on file: 912-213-3842. 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 9.5 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Usa-Hunter Army Airfield - Main is 11 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.4 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Usa-Hunter Army Airfield - Main's 11 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Georgia and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
79 other systems share Chatham County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Usa-Hunter Army Airfield - Main. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Savannah-Main | 168,958 | 3.9 ppb |
| Pooler | 28,423 | 1.9 ppb |
| Savannah-Georgetown/Gateway | 14,589 | 2.4 ppb |
| Savannah-Wilmington Island | 13,526 | 4.1 ppb |
| Larchmont Estates Subdivision | 11,799 | 1.2 ppb |
| The Landings Subdivision | 11,058 | 2.7 ppb |
| Port Wentworth | 11,000 | 10 ppb |
| Savannah-I & D | 10,500 | 6.4 ppb |
| Garden City | 9,000 | 5.4 ppb |
| Tybee Island | 8,047 | 1.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Stewart, 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 Usa-Hunter Army Airfield - Main 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.