Everglades City, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.3 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. 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.
Everglades City at a glance
Everglades City serves about 2,978 people through 1,191 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Collier County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL5110089; phone on file: 239-695-3791. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.2 ppb from 5.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Everglades City is 17 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2019 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 6.5 ppb |
| 2016 | 17 ppb over 15 |
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. Everglades City's 4.3 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Florida and the 89th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Collier County
9 other systems share Collier County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Everglades City. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Collier County Regional Wtp | 216,993 | 1.2 ppb |
| Naples Water Dept | 83,804 | 1.3 ppb |
| Marco Island Utilities (City Of) | 31,830 | 2.9 ppb |
| Immokalee Water | 26,841 | 0.9 ppb |
| Ave Maria Utility Company, Lllp | 11,982 | 0.4 ppb |
| Port Of The Islands | 1,200 | 0.1 ppb |
| Goodland Water Company | 853 | 4.7 ppb |
| Lee Cypress Co-Op | 82 | 4.6 ppb |
| Big Cypress Park Headquarters | 50 | 7.4 ppb |
Next steps for Everglades City, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Everglades City, 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 Everglades City 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.