Wildwood Estates, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
Wildwood Estates at a glance
Wildwood Estates serves about 46 people through 18 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Walton County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2970041; phone on file: 706-769-2814. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wildwood Estates is 18.6 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 10 ppb |
| 2016 | 18.6 ppb over 15 |
How Wildwood Estates 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. Wildwood Estates's 1.3 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Georgia and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
10 other systems share Walton County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wildwood Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Walton Co. Water & Sewer Auth. | 45,230 | 3 ppb |
| Monroe | 25,248 | 0 (not detected) |
| Social Circle | 5,470 | 6 ppb |
| Jersey | 435 | 0.6 ppb |
| Hillside Village Mhp, Inc. | 221 | 1.3 ppb |
| Rivermist Subdivision | 97 | 3.3 ppb |
| Mountain Ridge Subdivision | 86 | 1.4 ppb |
| Creekside At Riverstone | 73 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camp Lake Crossing | 54 | 2.4 ppb |
| Bearden Estates | 54 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Watkinsville, 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 Wildwood Estates whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1500 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.