Smokey Mountain Estates Subd, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.8 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Who runs the water here
Smokey Mountain Estates Subd serves about 127 people through 49 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Union County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2910104; phone on file: 706-745-8687. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 3.1 ppb from 8.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Smokey Mountain Estates Subd is 10.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 8.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 10.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 5.4 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. Smokey Mountain Estates Subd's 5.8 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Georgia and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Union County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Smokey Mountain Estates Subd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Notla Water Authority | 16,518 | 0 (not detected) |
| Coosa Water Authority | 4,407 | 3.5 ppb |
| Blairsville | 4,035 | 1.8 ppb |
| Wilson Mtn Subdivision | 348 | 0 (not detected) |
| The Mountain S/D | 343 | 4.4 ppb |
| Bryant Cove | 176 | 3 ppb |
| Souther Mill Estates | 115 | 12 ppb |
| Cheyenne Meadows | 27 | 0.6 ppb |
Next steps for Blairsville, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Blairsville, 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 Smokey Mountain Estates Subd 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.