Toccoa Falls College, GA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.8 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.
About Toccoa Falls College
Toccoa Falls College serves about 850 people through 152 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Stephens County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA2570011; phone on file: 706-599-9227. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 7.2 ppb from 12 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Toccoa Falls College is 34 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2024 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 34 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 24 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2016 | 10 ppb |
How Toccoa Falls College 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. Toccoa Falls College's 4.8 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Georgia and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
3 other systems share Stephens County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Toccoa Falls College. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Toccoa | 28,711 | 0 (not detected) |
| Martin | 1,769 | 1.3 ppb |
| Lake Harbor Shores Subdivision | 246 | 4.4 ppb |
Next steps for Toccoa Falls, GA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Toccoa Falls, 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 Toccoa Falls College 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.