Burton Mountain Poa, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
About Burton Mountain Poa
Burton Mountain Poa serves about 39 people through 16 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rabun County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2410105; phone on file: 240-672-2395. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Burton Mountain Poa's lead record
That is down 1.8 ppb from 3.3 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Burton Mountain Poa is 18.7 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 13.8 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 18.7 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 13 ppb over 10 |
Against other Georgia systems
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. Burton Mountain Poa's 1.5 ppb sits at the 66th percentile in Georgia and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Rabun County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Burton Mountain Poa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rabun County Water & Sewer Authority | 10,276 | 1.6 ppb |
| Sky Valley | 1,820 | 2.1 ppb |
| Sylvan Lake Falls | 615 | 5.5 ppb |
| Kingwood Water System | 575 | 0 (not detected) |
| Life Teen Covecrest Camp | 332 | 2.7 ppb |
| Dillard | 211 | 11.4 ppb |
| Tallulah Falls | 169 | 0 (not detected) |
| Covecrest Subdivision | 157 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waterfall Country Club Water System | 156 | 1.1 ppb |
| Charlie Mountain Water, Llc | 88 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Clayton, 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 Burton Mountain Poa 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.