Cherokee Club Resort, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.7 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.
Cherokee Club Resort at a glance
Cherokee Club Resort serves about 97 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Troup County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2850131; phone on file: 706-302-2845. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cherokee Club Resort is 15 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 7.05 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 15 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2.2 ppb |
How Cherokee Club Resort 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. Cherokee Club Resort's 1.7 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Georgia and the 66th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Troup County
4 other systems share Troup County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cherokee Club Resort. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lagrange | 41,852 | 1.1 ppb |
| West Point | 5,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hogansville | 4,295 | 0.74 ppb |
| Pine Mountain Mhp | 89 | 0.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pine Mountain, 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 Cherokee Club Resort whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2875 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.