Gator Waterworks, FL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Gator Waterworks
Gator Waterworks serves about 800 people through 352 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Alachua County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2010612; phone on file: 727-848-8292. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Gator Waterworks's lead record
That is down 5.8 ppb from 5.8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gator Waterworks is 5.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Gator Waterworks's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Florida and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
13 other systems share Alachua County; 8 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gator Waterworks. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gru - Murphree Wtp | 195,768 | 0.7 ppb |
| Alachua Wtp | 8,220 | 14 ppb |
| High Springs Wtp | 5,795 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newberry Wtp | 3,885 | 1.9 ppb |
| Hawthorne Wtp | 2,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Archer Water System | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waldo Wtp | 1,042 | 1.2 ppb |
| Arredondo Estates | 738 | 0 (not detected) |
| Micanopy Water System | 605 | 1.5 ppb |
| Lake Alto Estates Mhp | 325 | 1.6 ppb |
Next steps for New Port Richey, FL
Look up your address in Gator Waterworks's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Gator Waterworks 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.