Gasparilla Island Water Assoc, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.3 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.
Gasparilla Island Water Assoc at a glance
Gasparilla Island Water Assoc serves about 6,605 people through 1,791 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Charlotte County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6080104; phone on file: 941-964-2423. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (2.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gasparilla Island Water Assoc is 3.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.2 ppb |
How Gasparilla Island Water Assoc 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. Gasparilla Island Water Assoc's 3.3 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Florida and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Charlotte County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gasparilla Island Water Assoc. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte County Utilities | 173,820 | 9.6 ppb |
| City Of Punta Gorda | 36,302 | 4.4 ppb |
| Town And Country Utility | 13,427 | 0.4 ppb |
| Charlotte County Utilities / Burnt Store | 13,376 | 3 ppb |
| Charlotte Harbor Water Assn. | 4,722 | 2.8 ppb |
| Riverwood Community Del. Dist. | 2,243 | 2.7 ppb |
| Charlotte Correctional Institution | 1,779 | 0.2 ppb |
| El Jobean Water Association | 1,351 | 0.7 ppb |
| Little Gasparilla Water Utility Inc | 1,330 | 0.2 ppb |
| Bocilla Utilities, Inc. | 1,068 | 2.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Boca Grande, 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 Gasparilla Island Water Assoc 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.