Whitesburg, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.7 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Whitesburg
Whitesburg serves about 931 people through 358 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 surface water, in Carroll County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0450007; phone on file: 770-834-0848. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.3 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Whitesburg is 7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 7 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
How Whitesburg 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. Whitesburg's 5.7 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Georgia and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Carroll County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Whitesburg. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Carroll County | 51,592 | 7 ppb |
| Carrollton | 25,200 | 12.3 ppb |
| Villa Rica | 15,667 | 1.4 ppb |
| Bowdon | 6,180 | 1.9 ppb |
| Temple | 5,708 | 7.2 ppb |
| Mount Zion | 1,691 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roopville | 252 | 7.5 ppb |
| Cooks Mobile Home Park | 108 | 0.6 ppb |
| Villa Forest Mobile Home Park | 73 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for Whitesburg, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Whitesburg, 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 Whitesburg 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.