Fernwood Mobile Home Community, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Fernwood Mobile Home Community at a glance
Fernwood Mobile Home Community serves about 199 people through 74 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Brooks County, Florida. EPA system ID: GA0270010; phone on file: 407-470-9030. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Fernwood Mobile Home Community's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fernwood Mobile Home Community is 1.4 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.4 ppb |
Against other Florida systems
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. Fernwood Mobile Home Community's 0.6 ppb sits at the 35th percentile in Florida and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orlando, 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 Fernwood Mobile Home Community 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.