Columbia County-Ellisville, FL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Columbia County-Ellisville at a glance
Columbia County-Ellisville serves about 75 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Columbia County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2124413; phone on file: 386-590-0732. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Columbia County-Ellisville's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Columbia County-Ellisville is 4.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 4.2 ppb |
Against other Florida systems
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. Columbia County-Ellisville's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 6th percentile in Florida and the 7th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
15 other systems share Columbia County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Columbia County-Ellisville. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Lake City (Price Creek Wtp) | 20,488 | 2.6 ppb |
| Town Of Fort White Wtp | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodgate Village | 343 | 3 ppb |
| Sundial Apartments | 265 | 0.4 ppb |
| Verndale Apartments | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp | 218 | 2.1 ppb |
| College Manor Utilities | 150 | 1.7 ppb |
| Maple Lane Associates | 147 | 1 ppb |
| Quail Heights Country Club | 103 | 9.8 ppb |
| Cannon Creek Mhp | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Columbia County-Ellisville's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Columbia County-Ellisville 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.