Flagler Beach Wtp, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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. 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.
About Flagler Beach Wtp
Flagler Beach Wtp serves about 4,830 people through 3,240 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Flagler County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2180349; phone on file: 386-517-2000. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Flagler Beach Wtp's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Flagler Beach Wtp is 2.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.1 ppb |
How Flagler Beach Wtp 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. Flagler Beach Wtp's 0.5 ppb sits at the 33rd percentile in Florida and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Flagler County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Flagler Beach Wtp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Palm Coast Utility | 112,324 | 1.3 ppb |
| Dunes Community Development District | 5,054 | 0.3 ppb |
| Fgua - Plantation Bay Wtp | 3,522 | 4.6 ppb |
| Bunnell Water Plant | 3,507 | 6 ppb |
| Beverly Beach Water System | 1,413 | 1.8 ppb |
| Bulow Plantation | 1,000 | 1.2 ppb |
| Eagle Lakes Wtp | 231 | 2.9 ppb |
| Daytona North Water System | 100 | 0.4 ppb |
| Holiday Travel Park | 85 | 2.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Flagler Beach, 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 Flagler Beach Wtp 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.