Western Estates, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Western Estates serves about 78 people through 30 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Burke County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0330049; phone on file: 706-551-1010. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.6 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Western Estates is 1.9 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.8 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. Western Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 12th percentile in Georgia and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Burke County
6 other systems share Burke County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Western Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Waynesboro | 5,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sardis | 1,151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Midville | 776 | 0 (not detected) |
| Keysville | 305 | 1.4 ppb |
| Girard | 254 | 0 (not detected) |
| Vidette | 127 | 1.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Western Estates'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 Western Estates 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.