Old River Road Hoa, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 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.
Old River Road Hoa at a glance
Old River Road Hoa serves about 104 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Habersham County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1370058; phone on file: 912-313-1977. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (2.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Old River Road Hoa is 2.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.3 ppb |
How Old River Road Hoa 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. Old River Road Hoa's 2.5 ppb sits at the 80th percentile in Georgia and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Habersham County
13 other systems share Habersham County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Old River Road Hoa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Demorest | 18,049 | 2 ppb |
| Cornelia | 6,130 | 1.1 ppb |
| Clarkesville | 5,785 | 0.56 ppb |
| Baldwin | 4,160 | 0 (not detected) |
| Alto | 2,737 | 1 ppb |
| Mount Airy | 1,384 | 4.5 ppb |
| The Orchard Development | 639 | 0 (not detected) |
| Deer Trail Lakes/High Meadows Subdivisio | 111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Old Panther Creek Subdivision | 75 | 1.6 ppb |
| Pinecrest Mountain S/D | 67 | 12.9 ppb |
Next steps for Savannah, GA
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 Old River Road Hoa 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.