Rainbow Retreat, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Rainbow Retreat
Rainbow Retreat serves about 59 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in White County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA3110085; phone on file: 912-313-1977. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Rainbow Retreat's lead record
That is down 1.6 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rainbow Retreat is 3.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.7 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Rainbow Retreat's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Georgia and the 5th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share White County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rainbow Retreat. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| White Co Water & Sewerage Auth | 6,380 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cleveland Waterworks | 5,587 | 0 (not detected) |
| Helen | 1,851 | 1.2 ppb |
| Skylake | 1,173 | 1.3 ppb |
| Peaceful Valley | 289 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mt. Yonah Scenic Estates | 198 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mountain Creek Grove Resort | 191 | 9.2 ppb |
| Wildwood On Pink Mountain Hoa | 169 | 1.4 ppb |
| Swiss Colony Water Service | 153 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yonah East Subdivision | 137 | 1.9 ppb |
Next steps for Savannah, GA
Look up your address in Rainbow Retreat's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Rainbow Retreat 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.