Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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 Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp
Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp serves about 218 people through 87 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Columbia County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2124372; phone on file: 352-302-7406. 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 2.1 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp is 5.1 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
How Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp 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. Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp's 2.1 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Florida and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Columbia County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Lake City (Price Creek Wtp) | 20,488 | 2.6 ppb |
| Town Of Fort White Wtp | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodgate Village | 343 | 3 ppb |
| Sundial Apartments | 265 | 0.4 ppb |
| Verndale Apartments | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| College Manor Utilities | 150 | 1.7 ppb |
| Maple Lane Associates | 147 | 1 ppb |
| Quail Heights Country Club | 103 | 9.8 ppb |
| Cannon Creek Mhp | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Suwannee Valley Estates | 75 | 2.6 ppb |
Next steps for New Port Richey, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Port Richey, 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 Brandon-Brent Heights 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.