Americana Village, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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. 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.
About Americana Village
Americana Village serves about 2,500 people through 525 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4131403; phone on file: 786-286-3764. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Americana Village's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Americana Village is 6.9 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 6.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Americana Village's 1 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Florida and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Miami-Dade County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Americana Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mdwasa - Main System | 2,377,460 | 3.1 ppb |
| Hialeah, City Of | 238,000 | 0.9 ppb |
| North Miami Beach | 180,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Miami Beach, City Of | 100,000 | 7 ppb |
| North Miami, City Of | 89,349 | 1.8 ppb |
| Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P. | 86,000 | 4 ppb |
| Homestead, City Of | 80,000 | 2.5 ppb |
| Mdwasa/Rex Utilities | 45,200 | 1 ppb |
| Hialeah Gardens | 22,200 | 1.5 ppb |
| Opa Locka, City Of | 16,479 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Miami, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Miami, 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 Americana Village 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.