Century, Town Of, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 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.
Century, Town Of at a glance
Century, Town Of serves about 3,490 people through 893 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Escambia County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1170613; phone on file: 850-602-0651. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2024 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Century, Town Of is 18 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 6.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 8.9 ppb |
How Century, Town 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. Century, Town Of's 0.4 ppb sits at the 30th percentile in Florida and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Escambia County
11 other systems share Escambia County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Century, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (Ecua) | 242,172 | 0.6 ppb |
| Peoples Water Service Company | 24,806 | 9 ppb |
| Nas Pensacola / Corry Station | 22,600 | 2.8 ppb |
| University Of West Florida | 13,285 | 2.1 ppb |
| Farm Hill Utilities, Inc. | 10,346 | 2.1 ppb |
| Molino Utilities, Inc. | 8,845 | 0.3 ppb |
| Cottage Hill Water Works | 6,737 | 3.7 ppb |
| Gonzalez Utilities Association, Inc. | 6,668 | 5 ppb |
| Erec Water System | 4,238 | 1 ppb |
| Central Water Works | 2,560 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Century, 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 Century, Town Of whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2600 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. More in what a past exceedance means today.