Cape Coral, City Of, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
Cape Coral, City Of at a glance
Cape Coral, City Of serves about 172,693 people through 86,506 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Lee County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL5360325; phone on file: 239-574-0700. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Cape Coral, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cape Coral, City Of is 2.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.5 ppb |
How Cape Coral, City Of 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. Cape Coral, City Of's 1.4 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Florida and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
19 other systems share Lee County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Cape Coral, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lee County Utilities | 282,556 | 1.1 ppb |
| City Of Fort Myers Water Treatment Plant | 92,219 | 0.4 ppb |
| Bonita Springs Utilities | 76,033 | 2.1 ppb |
| Florida Governmental Utility Authority | 32,296 | 5.3 ppb |
| Greater Pine Island Water Association | 15,725 | 0.4 ppb |
| Island Water Association | 14,784 | 0.7 ppb |
| Gateway Services District | 14,553 | 1.9 ppb |
| Town Of Fort Myers Beach (Beach Water) | 6,499 | 5.2 ppb |
| Citrus Park Rv Resort (Bonita Terra) | 3,282 | 2.8 ppb |
| Lake Fairways Mobile Home Park | 2,000 | 0.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Cape Coral, 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 Cape Coral, 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.