Paradise Pt-Rocky Point, GA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 17 ppb (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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Paradise Pt-Rocky Point at a glance
Paradise Pt-Rocky Point serves about 111 people through 41 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: GA1470054; phone on file: 706-376-8241. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Paradise Pt-Rocky Point's lead record
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paradise Pt-Rocky Point is 17 ppb across 1 monitoring period, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 17 ppb over 15 |
How Paradise Pt-Rocky Point 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. Paradise Pt-Rocky Point's 17 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Georgia and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Hart County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Paradise Pt-Rocky Point. 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 |
| Vickery Point Subdivision | 111 | 2.2 ppb |
| Ridgeview Estates Sd | 111 | 0.6 ppb |
| Chateau Estates Subdivision | 88 | 13.5 ppb |
Next steps for Hartwell, GA
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Paradise Pt-Rocky Point whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 6600 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.