Rayle Water System, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Rayle Water System
Rayle Water System serves about 200 people through 76 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Wilkes County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA3170000; phone on file: 706-274-3351. 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 2025 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rayle Water System is 38.5 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 16.2 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 38.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 12.5 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 12.3 ppb over 10 |
How Rayle Water System 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. Rayle Water System's 0.9 ppb sits at the 54th percentile in Georgia and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
2 other systems share Wilkes County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rayle Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Washington | 6,490 | 2.1 ppb |
| Tignall Water System | 729 | 2.2 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Rayle, 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 Rayle Water System 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.