Pinehill Subdivision, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 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.
Who runs the water here
Pinehill Subdivision serves about 96 people through 37 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Oconee County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2190035. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2023 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinehill Subdivision is 1.9 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.1 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. Pinehill Subdivision's 1.9 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Georgia and the 68th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
26 other systems share Oconee County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinehill Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oconee County | 30,162 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Bass I (Sc3750002) | 681 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brookwood Estates Subdivision | 602 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fieldstone/Canyon Creek Sd | 367 | 4.6 ppb |
| Timber Lake I (Sc3750006) | 283 | 0 (not detected) |
| Northwest Woods Subdivision | 238 | 2 ppb |
| Woodlands Subdivision/Oconee Village Apt | 234 | 2.4 ppb |
| Fernwood Subdivision | 218 | 1.2 ppb |
| Port Bass Ii (Sc3750012) | 165 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elder Heights Subdivision | 154 | 5.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eatonton, 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 Pinehill Subdivision whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1400 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.