Bulow Plantation, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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
Bulow Plantation serves about 1,000 people through 642 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Flagler County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2180132; phone on file: 813-282-5934. 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 down 8.7 ppb from 9.9 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bulow Plantation is 20 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 9.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 20 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.7 ppb |
How Bulow Plantation 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. Bulow Plantation's 1.2 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Florida and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Flagler County
9 other systems share Flagler County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bulow Plantation. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Palm Coast Utility | 112,324 | 1.3 ppb |
| Dunes Community Development District | 5,054 | 0.3 ppb |
| Flagler Beach Wtp | 4,830 | 0.5 ppb |
| Fgua - Plantation Bay Wtp | 3,522 | 4.6 ppb |
| Bunnell Water Plant | 3,507 | 6 ppb |
| Beverly Beach Water System | 1,413 | 1.8 ppb |
| Eagle Lakes Wtp | 231 | 2.9 ppb |
| Daytona North Water System | 100 | 0.4 ppb |
| Holiday Travel Park | 85 | 2.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tampa, 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 Bulow Plantation 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.