Montaluce Water Works Water System, GA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12.5 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. 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 Montaluce Water Works Water System
Montaluce Water Works Water System serves about 52 people through 20 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: GA1870100; phone on file: 678-618-0234. 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 4.9 ppb from 7.6 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Montaluce Water Works Water System is 12.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 12.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 7.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.3 ppb |
How Montaluce Water Works Water System 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. Montaluce Water Works Water System's 12.5 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Georgia and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
32 other systems share Lumpkin County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Montaluce Water Works Water System. 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 |
| Mill Creek Station | 205 | 5.4 ppb |
| Lumpkin Co. - Greenwood Park S/D | 190 | 4.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
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 Montaluce Water Works Water System 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.