Dillard, GA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11.4 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. 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.
About Dillard
Dillard serves about 211 people through 81 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Rabun County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2410138; phone on file: 678-315-1813. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 8.4 ppb from 3 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dillard is 11.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 11.4 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.1 ppb |
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. Dillard's 11.4 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Georgia and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Rabun County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dillard. 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 |
| 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) |
| Laurel Ridge S/D | 88 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alto, 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 Dillard 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.