Warm Springs, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Warm Springs at a glance
Warm Springs serves about 1,017 people through 437 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Meriwether County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1990004; phone on file: 706-655-9096. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Warm Springs's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Warm Springs is 17 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2.7 ppb |
How Warm Springs 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. Warm Springs's 1.9 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Georgia and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Meriwether County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Warm Springs. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester | 5,397 | 0 (not detected) |
| Luthersville | 2,468 | 1.2 ppb |
| Greenville | 2,013 | 0.48 ppb |
| Woodbury | 961 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roosevelt Warm Springs Inst. | 493 | 1.5 ppb |
| Lone Oak Water System | 307 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gay | 167 | 2.5 ppb |
| Whippoorwill Ridge Subdivision | 67 | 4.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Warm Springs, 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 Warm Springs whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2100 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.