Sky Valley, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Sky Valley serves about 1,820 people through 700 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Rabun County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2410053; phone on file: 706-982-5174. 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 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sky Valley is 29 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 29 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.1 ppb |
How Sky Valley 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. Sky Valley's 2.1 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Georgia and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
13 other systems share Rabun County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sky Valley. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Rabun County Water & Sewer Authority | 10,276 | 1.6 ppb |
| Sylvan Lake Falls | 615 | 5.5 ppb |
| Kingwood Water System | 575 | 0 (not detected) |
| Life Teen Covecrest Camp | 332 | 2.7 ppb |
| Dillard | 211 | 11.4 ppb |
| Tallulah Falls | 169 | 0 (not detected) |
| Covecrest Subdivision | 157 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waterfall Country Club Water System | 156 | 1.1 ppb |
| Charlie Mountain Water, Llc | 88 | 0 (not detected) |
| Laurel Ridge S/D | 88 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sky Valley, 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 Sky Valley 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.