Forest Green Utility System, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 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. 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 Forest Green Utility System
Forest Green Utility System serves about 31 people through 36 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Marion County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3425029; phone on file: 352-572-1293. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Forest Green Utility System is 3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. Forest Green Utility System's 3 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Florida and the 81st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Marion County
92 other systems share Marion County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Forest Green Utility System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ocala, City Of (2 Wtps) | 66,449 | 0.7 ppb |
| West Side Consolidated | 54,542 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Side Consolidated | 40,251 | 0 (not detected) |
| On Top Of The World | 22,383 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belleview, City Of (3 Wps) | 9,358 | 4.7 ppb |
| Spruce Creek North | 7,467 | 4.9 ppb |
| Ashley Farms | 4,784 | 1.8 ppb |
| Lowell Correctional Institution Annex | 2,974 | 1.4 ppb |
| Marion Correctional Institution | 2,700 | 0.6 ppb |
| Rolling Greens Village | 2,498 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Ocala, 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 Forest Green Utility System 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.