Bal Harbour Village, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Bal Harbour Village serves about 3,209 people through 475 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4130077; phone on file: 786-566-3462. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1159.3 ppb from 1160 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bal Harbour Village is 1160 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 1160 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2016 | 3.4 ppb |
How Bal Harbour Village compares
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. Bal Harbour Village's 0.7 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in Florida and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Miami-Dade County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bal Harbour 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 Bal Harbour, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bal Harbour, 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 Bal Harbour 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.