Graceville, City Of, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 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.
Who runs the water here
Graceville, City Of serves about 4,000 people through 1,185 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Jackson County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1320145; phone on file: 850-263-3250. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is down 2.7 ppb from 4.8 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Graceville, City Of is 4.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.2 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. Graceville, City Of's 2.1 ppb sits at the 73rd percentile in Florida and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Jackson County
15 other systems share Jackson County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Graceville, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Marianna, City Of | 8,227 | 2 ppb |
| Jackson County Utilities No. 1 | 2,205 | 7.8 ppb |
| Sneads, Town Of Water System | 1,893 | 2.2 ppb |
| Apalachee Correctional Institution | 1,756 | 1 ppb |
| Jackson Correctional Institution | 1,307 | 1 ppb |
| Grand Ridge, Town Of | 978 | 2.1 ppb |
| Cottondale Water System | 861 | 1 ppb |
| Greenwood, Town Of Water System | 692 | 3.1 ppb |
| Alford, Town Of | 497 | 2.2 ppb |
| Malone, Town Of Water System | 437 | 5 ppb |
Next steps for Graceville, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Graceville, 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 Graceville, City Of 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.