Walnut Mountain S/D Poa, GA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Walnut Mountain S/D Poa
Walnut Mountain S/D Poa serves about 1,105 people through 425 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Gilmer County, Georgia. EPA system ID: GA1230004; phone on file: 706-235-2565. 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 2023 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Walnut Mountain S/D Poa is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
How Walnut Mountain S/D Poa 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. Walnut Mountain S/D Poa's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 39th percentile in Georgia and the 27th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Gilmer County
13 other systems share Gilmer County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Walnut Mountain S/D Poa. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ellijay-Gilmer Co. Water Auth. | 13,010 | 2.3 ppb |
| Eagles Mountain Campground | 1,820 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherry Log Mtn.-Indian Rock | 283 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherry Log Mtn.-Granny Lake | 265 | 0 (not detected) |
| Laurel Ridge | 224 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Buckhorn | 164 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherry Log Mountain I | 151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Carters Lake Estates | 148 | 0.7 ppb |
| Hidden Lake | 112 | 0 (not detected) |
| Holloway Mountain | 65 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Walnut Mountain S/D Poa's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Walnut Mountain S/D Poa 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.