Fowlers Bluff Wtp, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Fowlers Bluff Wtp
Fowlers Bluff Wtp serves about 300 people through 158 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Levy County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2380387; phone on file: 407-947-8824. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Fowlers Bluff Wtp is 1.6 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Fowlers Bluff 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. Fowlers Bluff Wtp's 1.6 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Florida and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Levy County
12 other systems share Levy County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Fowlers Bluff Wtp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Williston Wtp | 2,400 | 2.5 ppb |
| City Of Chiefland Wtp | 2,031 | 0 (not detected) |
| Town Of Inglis | 1,630 | 5.5 ppb |
| Fanning Springs Ws | 1,310 | 2.7 ppb |
| Bronson Wtp | 1,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cedar Key Wtp | 735 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yankeetown Wtp | 711 | 0 (not detected) |
| University Oaks Mhp | 369 | 0 (not detected) |
| Manatee Utilities | 290 | 0 (not detected) |
| Fimc Hideaway Inc (Springside) | 275 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for Chiefland, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Chiefland, 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 Fowlers Bluff 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.