Dade Juvenile Residential Facility, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.1 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.
Who runs the water here
Dade Juvenile Residential Facility serves about 75 people through 6 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4134358; phone on file: 850-617-4894. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2025 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Dade Juvenile Residential Facility is 210 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 11.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2023 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 210 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 3 ppb |
How Dade Juvenile Residential Facility 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. Dade Juvenile Residential Facility's 1.1 ppb sits at the 53rd percentile in Florida and the 56th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Miami-Dade County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Dade Juvenile Residential Facility. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mdwasa - Main System | 2,377,460 | 3.1 ppb |
| Hialeah, City Of | 238,000 | 0.9 ppb |
| North Miami Beach | 180,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Miami Beach, City Of | 100,000 | 7 ppb |
| North Miami, City Of | 89,349 | 1.8 ppb |
| Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P. | 86,000 | 4 ppb |
| Homestead, City Of | 80,000 | 2.5 ppb |
| Mdwasa/Rex Utilities | 45,200 | 1 ppb |
| Hialeah Gardens | 22,200 | 1.5 ppb |
| Opa Locka, City Of | 16,479 | 0.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tallahassee, 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 Dade Juvenile Residential Facility whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 24000 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.