Lumpkin Co. - Sherwood Forest Subd., GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.1 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Lumpkin Co. - Sherwood Forest Subd. at a glance
Lumpkin Co. - Sherwood Forest Subd. serves about 208 people through 80 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 groundwater, in Lumpkin County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1870072; phone on file: 706-867-6580. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 8.4 ppb from 15.5 ppb in the period ending 2017. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lumpkin Co. - Sherwood Forest Subd. is 15.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 15.5 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. Lumpkin Co. - Sherwood Forest Subd.'s 7.1 ppb sits at the 95th percentile in Georgia and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
32 other systems share Lumpkin County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lumpkin Co. - Sherwood Forest Subd.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Dahlonega | 7,500 | 1 ppb |
| Lumpkin Co. - 400 Water System | 2,379 | 1.3 ppb |
| Life Teen At Hidden Lake Water System | 390 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crawford Falls Subdivivision | 372 | 2.6 ppb |
| Brookwood & Cedar Springs Subdivisions | 334 | 1.9 ppb |
| Blueridge Overlook Subdivision | 332 | 0.6 ppb |
| Castleberry Ridge Subdivision | 248 | 2.7 ppb |
| Mill Creek Station | 205 | 5.4 ppb |
| Lumpkin Co. - Greenwood Park S/D | 190 | 4.6 ppb |
| Bryndemere Subdivision | 178 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Dahlonega, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Dahlonega, 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 Lumpkin Co. - Sherwood Forest Subd. 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.