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Water hardness in Gainesville

Find official utility reports, understand hardness, and check the water system serving your home in Gainesville, Georgia.

Utility-reported hardness

Not yet available

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State comparison
Unavailable
Evidence comparison rank
—
Matched utilities
4
Active health records
0

Your tap water

What does the utility report?

Match the utility name to your water bill. These results describe the utility’s water, not a test at your home. A ZIP can include several water systems.

Utility hardness unavailable in this index

Nearby river or groundwater samples cannot tell us the hardness coming out of your tap. Ask your water provider for total hardness as CaCO₃, or test it at home.

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Your utility’s measurements and compliance records

These are possible serving systems. A record for one system does not apply to every home in this ZIP. Confirm your provider before interpreting a measurement or notice. Federal records can lag current utility notices.

EPA snapshot: 2026Q2. Historical window begins Jan 1, 2021.

Gainesville

GA1390001 · Surface water · 140,000 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

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Measurements (1)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0.0015 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

10% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2022 to Dec 31, 2024

Violation history (1)
Imported violation history for Gainesville
RuleStatusPeriod
Consumer Confidence RuleResolvedJul 1, 2024 to Aug 2, 2024

Leisure Lake Condo. Assoc.inc.

GA1390012 · Groundwater · 532 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

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Measurements (1)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

0% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025

Violation history (1)
Imported violation history for Leisure Lake Condo. Assoc.inc.
RuleStatusPeriod
Lead and Copper RuleResolvedOct 1, 2022 to Aug 2, 2023

Surfside Club Estates

GA1390016 · Groundwater · 523 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

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Measurements (2)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0.003 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

20% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2021 to Dec 31, 2023

Copper (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Above action level
Reported level
1,460 mg/L
Action level
1.3 mg/L

112308% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Mar 20, 1996 to Sep 19, 1996

Violation history (6)
Imported violation history for Surfside Club Estates
RuleStatusPeriod
Combined UraniumArchivedJan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UArchivedJan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Combined UraniumArchivedJan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Combined Radium (-226 and -228)ArchivedJan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Combined Radium (-226 and -228)ArchivedJan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and UArchivedJan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2025

Mount Shores Condo Association

GA1390127 · Groundwater · 210 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

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Measurements (1)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0.0017 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

11% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2021 to Dec 31, 2023

Violation history (0)

No record returned in this imported window. This is not a guarantee of tap-water safety.

City summary

What the indexed records say

Gainesville has 4 published ZIP profiles across Hall County. The regional-evidence median is 13 PPM. The city does not meet the stricter comparison standard.

The 12.5–13 PPM range shows how much the available ZIP estimates vary within the city label.

Hardness distribution

How local ZIP estimates compare

Soft4 ZIPs
Moderately hard0 ZIPs
Hard0 ZIPs
Very hard0 ZIPs

4 of 4 ZIP profiles have a hardness estimate. Bars count ZIP profiles, not households or laboratory samples.

Evidence quality

Distance, dates, and confidence

Median nearest distance
5.6 miles
Profiles with evidence
4/4

Confidence labels

High: 0Moderate: 4Low: 0

Observation window: Dec 5, 2024 to Dec 5, 2024.

ZIP directory

Water reports in Gainesville

Open a ZIP for site-level provenance and measurements.

Practical next steps

Move from index to evidence

  1. 1. Open your ZIP. Check distance, dates, confidence, and the associated utility.
  2. 2. Read the current CCR. Confirm source water, detections, limits, ranges, and notices.
  3. 3. Use a measured hardness result. Confirm health concerns or treatment sizing with the right method.

Questions people ask

About water in Gainesville

Is the water hard?

Check the utility-reported result above when available. Nearby environmental samples cannot establish tap-water hardness. Ask your provider or test your tap.

Is the tap water safe?

Compliance history is utility-wide and cannot guarantee conditions at every tap. Check current notices and test when address-specific evidence is needed.

Do I need treatment?

Choose treatment only after confirming the problem at the property. A softener targets hardness; contaminant treatment requires a matching, verified performance claim.