De Neef Village, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (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. 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 De Neef Village
De Neef Village serves about 45 people through 60 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orange County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3480289; phone on file: 407-554-3699. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for De Neef Village is 1.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.1 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. De Neef Village's 1.5 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Florida and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
40 other systems share Orange County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than De Neef Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orlando Utilities Commission | 536,466 | 2 ppb |
| Ocud/Eastern Water System (2 Wp) | 293,374 | 0.9 ppb |
| Ocud/Western Regional Wtr Sys (5 Wps) | 206,742 | 0.8 ppb |
| Cftod Central (4 Wps) | 136,500 | 1.3 ppb |
| Winter Park, City Of (3 Wps) | 82,984 | 1.4 ppb |
| Ocud/Southern Water Sys (5 Wps) | 80,738 | 1.6 ppb |
| Winter Garden Water Dept (3 Wps) | 72,205 | 3.1 ppb |
| Apopka, City Of (5 Wtps) | 71,917 | 0 (not detected) |
| University Of Central Florida | 44,103 | 4.7 ppb |
| Ocoee, City Of (2 Wps) | 34,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Apopka, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Apopka, 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 De Neef Village 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.