Alachua Wtp, FL
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 14 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. 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.
Alachua Wtp at a glance
Alachua Wtp serves about 8,220 people through 2,740 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Alachua County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2010017; phone on file: 386-418-6140. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 5.8 ppb from 8.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Alachua Wtp is 14 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 8.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
Against other Florida systems
Of the 1,481 Florida systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 3 are over 15 ppb right now and 85 have gone over at some point. Alachua Wtp's 14 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Florida and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Alachua County
13 other systems share Alachua County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Alachua Wtp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gru - Murphree Wtp | 195,768 | 0.7 ppb |
| High Springs Wtp | 5,795 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newberry Wtp | 3,885 | 1.9 ppb |
| Hawthorne Wtp | 2,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Archer Water System | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waldo Wtp | 1,042 | 1.2 ppb |
| Gator Waterworks | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arredondo Estates | 738 | 0 (not detected) |
| Micanopy Water System | 605 | 1.5 ppb |
| Lake Alto Estates Mhp | 325 | 1.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Alachua, FL 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 Alachua Wtp 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.