Cleveland Waterworks, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Cleveland Waterworks at a glance
Cleveland Waterworks serves about 5,587 people through 3,828 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in White County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA3110000; phone on file: 706-865-2017. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Cleveland Waterworks's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cleveland Waterworks is 2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Cleveland Waterworks's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 42nd percentile in Georgia and the 35th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share White County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cleveland Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| White Co Water & Sewerage Auth | 6,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Helen | 1,851 | 1.2 ppb |
| Skylake | 1,173 | 1.3 ppb |
| Peaceful Valley | 289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt. Yonah Scenic Estates | 198 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain Creek Grove Resort | 191 | 9.2 ppb |
| Wildwood On Pink Mountain Hoa | 169 | 1.4 ppb |
| Swiss Colony Water Service | 153 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yonah East Subdivision | 137 | 1.9 ppb |
| Timberlane | 107 | 5 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Cleveland Waterworks's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Cleveland Waterworks 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.