Country Walk Utilities, Inc., FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.5 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. 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.
About Country Walk Utilities, Inc.
Country Walk Utilities, Inc. serves about 95 people through 67 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Highlands County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6284114; phone on file: 727-848-8292. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Country Walk Utilities, Inc.'s lead record
That is up 5.5 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Country Walk Utilities, Inc. is 6.5 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.9 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Country Walk Utilities, Inc.'s 6.5 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Florida and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Highlands County
26 other systems share Highlands County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Country Walk Utilities, Inc.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sebring Water ; Sewer System | 46,295 | 0.9 ppb |
| Avon Park, City Of | 19,361 | 9.6 ppb |
| Sun N Lakes Of Sebring Water | 7,710 | 0.7 ppb |
| Spring Lake Improvement Distirct | 4,098 | 2.3 ppb |
| Placid Lakes Utilities, Inc | 3,307 | 1.4 ppb |
| Lake Placid, Town Of | 2,671 | 3.1 ppb |
| Tomoka Heights | 2,656 | 0.6 ppb |
| Lake Josephine Heights | 1,325 | 1 ppb |
| Highway Park Wtp | 903 | 1 ppb |
| Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands) | 800 | 2.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Port Richey, 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 Country Walk Utilities, Inc. 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.