Chipley, City Of, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
About Chipley, City Of
Chipley, City Of serves about 3,660 people through 1,996 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 Washington County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1670135; phone on file: 850-638-6094. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Chipley, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Chipley, City Of is 35 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 35 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
How Chipley, 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. Chipley, City Of's 1.4 ppb sits at the 61st percentile in Florida and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Washington County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Chipley, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Northwest Florida Reception Center | 2,500 | 2.8 ppb |
| Sunny Hills Utility Company | 1,458 | 1.9 ppb |
| Vernon, City Of | 736 | 1 ppb |
| Caryville, Town Of | 423 | 4.9 ppb |
| Wausau, Town Of | 361 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Chipley, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Chipley, 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 Chipley, 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.