Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.2 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 Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System
Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System serves about 10,896 people through 3,113 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Santa Rosa County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1570042; phone on file: 850-623-8508. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.7 ppb from 4.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System is 4.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.3 ppb |
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. Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System's 3.2 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Florida and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Santa Rosa County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pace Water System, Inc. | 49,328 | 2.6 ppb |
| Holley-Navarre Water System | 47,793 | 6.2 ppb |
| Milton, City Of Water System | 21,241 | 4.6 ppb |
| Midway Water System, Inc. | 21,196 | 2.1 ppb |
| Gulf Breeze Regional Water System | 17,596 | 2.3 ppb |
| East Milton Water System | 17,292 | 3 ppb |
| Point Baker Water System, Inc. | 11,318 | 1.1 ppb |
| Navarre Beach Water System | 6,166 | 1.3 ppb |
| Chumuckla Water System, Inc. | 5,527 | 1.1 ppb |
| Moore Creek Mount Carmel Utilities | 4,875 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Milton, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Milton, 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 Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System 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.