Westwood Heights Subdivision, 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.
Westwood Heights Subdivision at a glance
Westwood Heights Subdivision serves about 1,370 people through 530 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Effingham County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1030012; phone on file: 912-233-3254. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Westwood Heights Subdivision's lead record
That is down 1.3 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Westwood Heights Subdivision is 1.3 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.3 ppb |
How Westwood Heights Subdivision 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. Westwood Heights Subdivision's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 39th percentile in Georgia and the 28th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Effingham County
68 other systems share Effingham County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Westwood Heights Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rincon Water System | 16,654 | 1 ppb |
| Effingham County Surface Water System | 12,293 | 1.2 ppb |
| Springfield | 3,100 | 3.9 ppb |
| Guyton | 2,394 | 0 (not detected) |
| Azalea Point | 1,037 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lakeside Farms / Bloomingdale | 993 | 0 (not detected) |
| Conifer Crossing/Pine Hill | 759 | 0 (not detected) |
| Foxbow Farms | 723 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hickory Knob Subdivision | 671 | 0 (not detected) |
| Goshen Villa Subdivision | 632 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Westwood Heights Subdivision'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 Westwood Heights Subdivision 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.