Avon Park, City Of, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 9.6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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 Avon Park, City Of
Avon Park, City Of serves about 19,361 people through 11,006 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Highlands County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6280049; phone on file: 863-452-4400. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 8.3 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Avon Park, City Of is 9.6 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 9.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.5 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. Avon Park, City Of's 9.6 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Florida and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Highlands County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Avon Park, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sebring Water ; Sewer System | 46,295 | 0.9 ppb |
| Sun N Lakes Of Sebring Water | 7,710 | 0.7 ppb |
| Spring Lake Improvement Distirct | 4,098 | 2.3 ppb |
| Placid Lakes Utilities, Inc | 3,307 | 1.4 ppb |
| Lake Placid, Town Of | 2,671 | 3.1 ppb |
| Tomoka Heights | 2,656 | 0.6 ppb |
| Lake Josephine Heights | 1,325 | 1 ppb |
| Highway Park Wtp | 903 | 1 ppb |
| Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands) | 800 | 2.4 ppb |
| Tropical Harbor Estates | 650 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Avon Park, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Avon Park, 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 Avon Park, City Of 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.