Moreland Heights, GA
Lead reported as not detected
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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Moreland Heights
Moreland Heights serves about 30 people through 11 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hart County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1470081; phone on file: 706-376-8241. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Moreland Heights's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Moreland Heights is 8.3 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 8.3 ppb |
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. Moreland Heights's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in Georgia and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Hart County; 21 of them have a higher latest lead result than Moreland Heights. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Hartwell | 8,129 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hart Co. Water & Sewer Auth. | 5,637 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bowersville | 594 | 23 ppb |
| Sanders Mobile Home Park | 332 | 1.3 ppb |
| Reed Creek S/D | 242 | 5.9 ppb |
| Reed Creek Point/Reed Creek Heights | 216 | 2.9 ppb |
| Mcmullen Subdivision | 135 | 2.2 ppb |
| Paradise Pt-Rocky Point | 111 | 17 ppb |
| Vickery Point Subdivision | 111 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ridgeview Estates Sd | 111 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Hartwell, GA
Look up your address in Moreland Heights's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Moreland Heights 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.