Werbls, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
About Werbls
Werbls serves about 2,226 people through 825 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Putnam County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2370045. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Werbls's lead record
Against the period ending 2018 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Werbls is 1.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
How Werbls 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. Werbls's 1.3 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Georgia and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Putnam County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Werbls. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eatonton Putnam Water & Sewer Auth | 12,736 | 1.9 ppb |
| Oconee Crossing Ws (Res.& Comm.) | 3,902 | 1.9 ppb |
| Great Waters At Reynolds Plantation | 1,350 | 1.5 ppb |
| Cedar Cove / Hickory Point Subdivision | 432 | 0.7 ppb |
| Eagles Nest/Parks Mill Landing S/D | 377 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oconee Springs Landing S/D | 327 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alexander Lakes Subdivision | 248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whippoorwill Cove/Loch Haven S/D | 221 | 1.3 ppb |
| Lake Oconee Plantation S/D | 198 | 1.4 ppb |
| Deer Run Mobile Home Park Ii | 181 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eatonton, 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 Werbls 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.