Bear Track, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 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. 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.
Who runs the water here
Bear Track serves about 62 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fannin County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1110074; phone on file: 706-745-2033. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Bear Track's lead record
That is down 2.6 ppb from 3.2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bear Track is 3.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.6 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. Bear Track's 0.6 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Georgia and the 44th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Fannin County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bear Track. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mccaysville | 7,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Ridge Water System | 6,112 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morganton | 1,768 | 5.6 ppb |
| Fannin County Usda - My Mountain Sd | 559 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fannin County Cdbg - Forge Mill | 246 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fannin County, Gefa - Riverwalk | 187 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain High Subdivision | 137 | 5.2 ppb |
| Necowa Cove | 135 | 1 ppb |
| Mount Pisgah Subdivision | 111 | 3.1 ppb |
| Shepherds Ridge Subdivision | 100 | 3.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Blairsville, 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 Bear Track 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.