Surfside Club Estates, GA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
Surfside Club Estates at a glance
Surfside Club Estates serves about 629 people through 233 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hall County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1390016; phone on file: 770-510-1612. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Surfside Club Estates is 3 ppb across 1 monitoring period, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 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. Surfside Club Estates's 3 ppb sits at the 83rd percentile in Georgia and the 82nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Hall County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Surfside Club Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gainesville | 140,000 | 1.5 ppb |
| Flowery Branch | 4,594 | 12 ppb |
| Lula | 3,416 | 2.2 ppb |
| Leisure Lake Condo. Assoc.Inc. | 532 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Shore Forest Subdivision | 284 | 2.4 ppb |
| Mount Shores Condo Association | 210 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lodge Haven Subdivision | 104 | 3.6 ppb |
| Banks Mountain S/D | 60 | 12 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gainesville, 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 Surfside Club 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.