Pinewood Estates North, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 8.9 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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.
Pinewood Estates North at a glance
Pinewood Estates North serves about 581 people through 215 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Clarke County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0590009; phone on file: 706-353-1888. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.1 ppb from 5.8 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinewood Estates North is 8.9 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 5.8 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. Pinewood Estates North's 8.9 ppb sits at the 97th percentile in Georgia and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Clarke County
10 other systems share Clarke County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Pinewood Estates North. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Athens-Clarke Co Water System | 125,000 | 3.5 ppb |
| Hallmark Manufactured Housing Community | 753 | 3.4 ppb |
| Country Corners Mobile Home Community | 390 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crestmont Farms Subdivision | 170 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ramble Hills Subdivision | 157 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fowler`S Mill Subdivision | 127 | 1.5 ppb |
| Beaver Dam Estates M. H. P. | 105 | 6 ppb |
| Cherokee Mobile Home Park | 100 | - |
| Sandy Springs Subdivision | 42 | 28 ppb |
| Mineral Springs Subdivision | 35 | 2.1 ppb |
Next steps for Athens, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Athens, 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 Pinewood Estates North 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. 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.