Florida State Hospital, FL
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 11 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
Florida State Hospital serves about 3,200 people through 125 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Gadsden County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1200275; phone on file: 850-663-7466. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 8.5 ppb from 2.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Florida State Hospital is 11 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 11 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 ppb |
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. Florida State Hospital's 11 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Florida and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Gadsden County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Florida State Hospital. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gadsden Co Regional W/S | 12,322 | 2 ppb |
| Quincy, City Of W/S | 10,298 | 1.3 ppb |
| Havana, Town Of Water System | 3,860 | 1 ppb |
| Gretna, City Of | 3,508 | 2 ppb |
| Chattahoochee, City Of | 2,959 | 4.1 ppb |
| Greensboro, Town Of Water Sys. | 794 | 1.5 ppb |
| Tobacco Road | 146 | 0.2 ppb |
| Rosedale Water Association | 143 | 1.8 ppb |
| Jamieson Water System | 129 | 0.9 ppb |
| Hinson Heights | 120 | 1.1 ppb |
Next steps for Chattahoochee, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Chattahoochee, 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 Florida State Hospital 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.