Pineneedle Community Living, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2027). 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.
About Pineneedle Community Living
Pineneedle Community Living serves about 150 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 Columbia County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0730022; phone on file: 706-589-6703. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2018 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pineneedle Community Living is 0.7 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2027 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Pineneedle Community Living 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. Pineneedle Community Living's 0.7 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Georgia and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Columbia County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pineneedle Community Living. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia County | 124,763 | 1.6 ppb |
| Grovetown | 18,464 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shady Oaks Subdivision | 265 | 0.6 ppb |
| Azalea Park Subdivision | 220 | 0 (not detected) |
| Windy Acres Mobile Home Park | 162 | 0 (not detected) |
| Martinez Water Assoc. | 151 | 1.2 ppb |
| 242 Village Subdivision | 103 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mobile City Mobile Home Park | 86 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Augusta, 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 Pineneedle Community Living 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.