Heardmont Nursing Home, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Heardmont Nursing Home serves about 60 people through 1 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Elbert County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1050012; phone on file: 706-283-5429. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Heardmont Nursing Home's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heardmont Nursing Home is 16.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 16.6 ppb over 15 |
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. Heardmont Nursing Home's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Georgia and the 5th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Elbert County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heardmont Nursing Home. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Elberton | 7,800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bowman Water System | 1,299 | 4.1 ppb |
| Newton`S Pointe Subdivision | 135 | 1.8 ppb |
| Whispering Pines Mhp | 100 | 1.4 ppb |
| Nancy Hart Nursing Center | 67 | 6.4 ppb |
Next steps for Bolingbrooke, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bolingbrooke, 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 Heardmont Nursing Home whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1800 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.