Pine Mountain Valley, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). 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.
Pine Mountain Valley at a glance
Pine Mountain Valley serves about 1,209 people through 460 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Harris County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1450005; phone on file: 706-628-5217. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pine Mountain Valley is 1.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
How Pine Mountain Valley 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. Pine Mountain Valley's 1.5 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in Georgia and the 64th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Harris County
8 other systems share Harris County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pine Mountain Valley. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Harris County Water System | 22,922 | 4.7 ppb |
| Callaway Gardens Resorts, Inc. | 2,685 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hamilton | 2,211 | 1.4 ppb |
| Pine Mountain | 2,135 | 6.4 ppb |
| Waverly Hall | 746 | 1.9 ppb |
| Shiloh | 504 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pine Mountain Club Chalets | 280 | 0 (not detected) |
| Harris County Water Works- Sky Meadows | 65 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pine Mountain Valley, 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 Pine Mountain Valley 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.