Eglin Aux. 6 Ranger Camp, FL
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
Who runs the water here
Eglin Aux. 6 Ranger Camp serves about 134 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Okaloosa County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1460830; phone on file: 850-503-2241. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 9.2 ppb from 2.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Eglin Aux. 6 Ranger Camp is 12 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.5 ppb |
How Eglin Aux. 6 Ranger Camp 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. Eglin Aux. 6 Ranger Camp's 12 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Florida and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Okaloosa County
20 other systems share Okaloosa County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Eglin Aux. 6 Ranger Camp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okaloosa Co.Wtr.; Swr.System | 80,295 | 2.6 ppb |
| Crestview, City Of Water Dept. | 34,789 | 1.3 ppb |
| Destin Water Users, Inc. | 31,752 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fort Walton Beach, City Of | 24,113 | 1.7 ppb |
| Auburn Water System | 22,903 | 1.7 ppb |
| Niceville, City Of | 22,243 | 4.6 ppb |
| Okaloosa County Bluewater Bay-Raintree | 17,592 | 1.6 ppb |
| Hurlburt Field Water System | 10,006 | 6.3 ppb |
| Okaloosa County Mid System (Crestview) | 7,593 | 3 ppb |
| Valparaiso, City Of | 5,722 | 3.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eglin Afb, 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 Eglin Aux. 6 Ranger Camp 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. See what changes at 10 ppb in 2027.