Roopville, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.5 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. 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.
Roopville at a glance
Roopville serves about 252 people through 97 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 Carroll County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA0450004; phone on file: 770-854-7977. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.1 ppb from 9.6 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Roopville is 9.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 7.5 ppb |
| 2025 | 9.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.5 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. Roopville's 7.5 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Georgia and the 95th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
9 other systems share Carroll County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Roopville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Carroll County | 51,592 | 7 ppb |
| Carrollton | 25,200 | 12.3 ppb |
| Villa Rica | 15,667 | 1.4 ppb |
| Bowdon | 6,180 | 1.9 ppb |
| Temple | 5,708 | 7.2 ppb |
| Mount Zion | 1,691 | 0 (not detected) |
| Whitesburg | 931 | 5.7 ppb |
| Cooks Mobile Home Park | 108 | 0.6 ppb |
| Villa Forest Mobile Home Park | 73 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for Roopville, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Roopville, 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 Roopville whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2490 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.