Mill Creek Station, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.4 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
About Mill Creek Station
Mill Creek Station serves about 205 people through 76 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lumpkin County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1870086; phone on file: 912-313-1977. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 3.2 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mill Creek Station is 6.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 6.3 ppb |
How Mill Creek Station 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. Mill Creek Station's 5.4 ppb sits at the 92nd percentile in Georgia and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
32 other systems share Lumpkin County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mill Creek Station. 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 |
| Lumpkin Co. - Sherwood Forest Subd. | 208 | 7.1 ppb |
| Lumpkin Co. - Greenwood Park S/D | 190 | 4.6 ppb |
| Bryndemere Subdivision | 178 | 2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Savannah, 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 Mill Creek Station 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.