Sky Valley - Winding Ridge, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 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.
Sky Valley - Winding Ridge at a glance
Sky Valley - Winding Ridge serves about 57 people through 22 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 Rabun County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2410134; phone on file: 706-746-2204. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sky Valley - Winding Ridge is 1.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Sky Valley - Winding Ridge's 1.6 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Georgia and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Rabun County
13 other systems share Rabun County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sky Valley - Winding Ridge. 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 |
| Sky Valley | 1,820 | 2.1 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) |
What to do in your house
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 - Winding Ridge 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.