Heatherstone At Ford Mountain Hoa, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.1 ppb (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.
About Heatherstone At Ford Mountain Hoa
Heatherstone At Ford Mountain Hoa serves about 62 people through 57 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Rabun County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2410127; phone on file: 850-814-6384. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 4.4 ppb from 11.5 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heatherstone At Ford Mountain Hoa is 16.5 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 8.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 7.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 9.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 8.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 8.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 16.5 ppb over 15 |
How Heatherstone At Ford Mountain Hoa 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. Heatherstone At Ford Mountain Hoa's 7.1 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Georgia and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rabun County
13 other systems share Rabun County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Heatherstone At Ford Mountain Hoa. 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 |
| Dillard | 211 | 11.4 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) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dillard, 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 Heatherstone At Ford Mountain Hoa 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.