Souther Mill Estates, GA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Souther Mill Estates serves about 115 people through 54 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: GA2910059; phone on file: 706-745-2033. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Souther Mill Estates is 12 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 12 ppb over 10 |
How Souther Mill Estates 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. Souther Mill Estates's 12 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Georgia and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Union County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Souther Mill Estates. 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 |
| Smokey Mountain Estates Subd | 127 | 5.8 ppb |
| Cheyenne Meadows | 27 | 0.6 ppb |
Your move
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 Souther Mill Estates 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.