Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P., FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4 ppb (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. 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.
Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P. at a glance
Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P. serves about 86,000 people through 35,361 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4134357; phone on file: 305-296-2454. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.8 ppb from 2.2 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P. is 4.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.2 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. Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P.'s 4 ppb sits at the 89th percentile in Florida and the 88th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
24 other systems share Miami-Dade County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mdwasa - Main System | 2,377,460 | 3.1 ppb |
| Hialeah, City Of | 238,000 | 0.9 ppb |
| North Miami Beach | 180,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Miami Beach, City Of | 100,000 | 7 ppb |
| North Miami, City Of | 89,349 | 1.8 ppb |
| Homestead, City Of | 80,000 | 2.5 ppb |
| Mdwasa/Rex Utilities | 45,200 | 1 ppb |
| Hialeah Gardens | 22,200 | 1.5 ppb |
| Opa Locka, City Of | 16,479 | 0.9 ppb |
| Florida City | 13,453 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Key West, 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 Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P. 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.