Delray Beach Public Water System, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.7 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 Delray Beach Public Water System
Delray Beach Public Water System serves about 69,754 people through 22,589 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Palm Beach County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4500351; phone on file: 561-243-7000. 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 2024 (3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Delray Beach Public Water System is 7 ppb across 17 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2023 | 5 ppb |
| 2022 | 4 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2021 | 5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2019 | 5 ppb |
| 2018 | 5 ppb |
| 2018 | 7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
| 2016 | 6 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. Delray Beach Public Water System's 3.7 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Florida and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Palm Beach County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Delray Beach Public Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach County Water Utilities | 671,114 | 1.4 ppb |
| West Palm Beach Wtp | 132,000 | 3 ppb |
| Boca Raton Wtp | 130,000 | 0.6 ppb |
| Boynton Beach Pws | 112,000 | 4.4 ppb |
| Seacoast Utilities Authority | 97,552 | 1.6 ppb |
| Jupiter Public Water System,Town Of | 94,929 | 0.9 ppb |
| Wellington Wtp | 56,475 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lake Worth Beach Utilities | 48,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Riviera Beach Utility District, City Of | 46,762 | 2.4 ppb |
| Palm Springs, Village Of | 32,467 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Delray Beach, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Delray Beach, 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 Delray Beach Public Water System 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.