Chateau Estates Subdivision, GA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13.5 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Chateau Estates Subdivision at a glance
Chateau Estates Subdivision serves about 88 people through 34 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hart County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1470055; phone on file: 706-376-8241. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Chateau Estates Subdivision's lead record
That is up 7.5 ppb from 6 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chateau Estates Subdivision is 13.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 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. Chateau Estates Subdivision's 13.5 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Georgia and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Hart County
26 other systems share Hart County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chateau Estates Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hartwell | 8,129 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hart Co. Water & Sewer Auth. | 5,637 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bowersville | 594 | 23 ppb |
| Sanders Mobile Home Park | 332 | 1.3 ppb |
| Reed Creek S/D | 242 | 5.9 ppb |
| Reed Creek Point/Reed Creek Heights | 216 | 2.9 ppb |
| Mcmullen Subdivision | 135 | 2.2 ppb |
| Paradise Pt-Rocky Point | 111 | 17 ppb |
| Vickery Point Subdivision | 111 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ridgeview Estates Sd | 111 | 0.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Hartwell, 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 Chateau Estates 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.