East Side Consolidated, FL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
About East Side Consolidated
East Side Consolidated serves about 40,251 people through 16,212 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Marion County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3424897; phone on file: 352-307-4626. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.3 ppb from 2.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for East Side Consolidated is 2.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. East Side Consolidated's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 24th percentile in Florida and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Marion County
92 other systems share Marion County; 53 of them have a higher latest lead result than East Side Consolidated. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ocala, City Of (2 Wtps) | 66,449 | 0.7 ppb |
| West Side Consolidated | 54,542 | 0 (not detected) |
| On Top Of The World | 22,383 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belleview, City Of (3 Wps) | 9,358 | 4.7 ppb |
| Spruce Creek North | 7,467 | 4.9 ppb |
| Ashley Farms | 4,784 | 1.8 ppb |
| Lowell Correctional Institution Annex | 2,974 | 1.4 ppb |
| Marion Correctional Institution | 2,700 | 0.6 ppb |
| Rolling Greens Village | 2,498 | 1.2 ppb |
| Ocala Oaks Subdivision (2 Wps) | 2,202 | 0.8 ppb |
Next steps for Belleview, FL
Look up your address in East Side Consolidated'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 East Side Consolidated 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.