Chelsea Meadows / Waters Edge, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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.
About Chelsea Meadows / Waters Edge
Chelsea Meadows / Waters Edge serves about 120 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pasco County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6514852; phone on file: 813-968-5665. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Chelsea Meadows / Waters Edge's lead record
That is down 3.9 ppb from 3.9 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chelsea Meadows / Waters Edge is 18.3 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 18.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 1.4 ppb |
How Chelsea Meadows / Waters Edge 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. Chelsea Meadows / Waters Edge's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 9th percentile in Florida and the 11th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
63 other systems share Pasco County; 37 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chelsea Meadows / Waters Edge. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pcud-Pasco County Regional Pws | 214,403 | 1 ppb |
| New Port Richey Water Dept | 33,000 | 2 ppb |
| Seven Springs | 32,834 | 1.2 ppb |
| Zephyrhills City Of | 29,117 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dade City Water Dept | 15,561 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aloha Gardens Utilities | 8,136 | 1.6 ppb |
| Port Richey Water Dept-City Of | 7,732 | 1.3 ppb |
| Hudson Water Works | 7,169 | 5 ppb |
| Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East) | 7,021 | 0 (not detected) |
| Orangewood Water System | 6,464 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for Lutz, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lutz, 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 Chelsea Meadows / Waters Edge 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.