Necowa Cove, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Necowa Cove at a glance
Necowa Cove serves about 135 people through 52 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fannin County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1110105; phone on file: 706-745-2033. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Necowa Cove's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Necowa Cove is 10.9 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 7.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 10.9 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 3.4 ppb |
How Necowa Cove 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. Necowa Cove's 1 ppb sits at the 55th percentile in Georgia and the 52nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Fannin County
19 other systems share Fannin County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Necowa Cove. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mccaysville | 7,020 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Ridge Water System | 6,112 | 0 (not detected) |
| Morganton | 1,768 | 5.6 ppb |
| Fannin County Usda - My Mountain Sd | 559 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fannin County Cdbg - Forge Mill | 246 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fannin County, Gefa - Riverwalk | 187 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain High Subdivision | 137 | 5.2 ppb |
| Mount Pisgah Subdivision | 111 | 3.1 ppb |
| Shepherds Ridge Subdivision | 100 | 3.2 ppb |
| Cooper'S Creek Estates | 89 | 8.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Blairsville, 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 Necowa Cove 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.