Mountain Creek Grove Resort, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 9.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Mountain Creek Grove Resort
Mountain Creek Grove Resort serves about 191 people through 90 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in White County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA3110111; phone on file: 706-809-9681. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.3 ppb from 11.5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Mountain Creek Grove Resort is 11.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (2 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 9.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 11.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 7.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 10.6 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 6.9 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. Mountain Creek Grove Resort's 9.2 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Georgia and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in White County
16 other systems share White County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Mountain Creek Grove Resort. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| White Co Water & Sewerage Auth | 6,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cleveland Waterworks | 5,587 | 0 (not detected) |
| Helen | 1,851 | 1.2 ppb |
| Skylake | 1,173 | 1.3 ppb |
| Peaceful Valley | 289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt. Yonah Scenic Estates | 198 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood On Pink Mountain Hoa | 169 | 1.4 ppb |
| Swiss Colony Water Service | 153 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yonah East Subdivision | 137 | 1.9 ppb |
| Timberlane | 107 | 5 ppb |
Next steps for Cleveland, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cleveland, 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 Mountain Creek Grove Resort 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.