Greater Pine Island Water Association, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 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 Greater Pine Island Water Association
Greater Pine Island Water Association serves about 15,725 people through 7,148 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lee County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL5360322; phone on file: 239-283-0091. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Greater Pine Island Water Association is 0.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.2 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. Greater Pine Island Water Association's 0.4 ppb sits at the 30th percentile in Florida and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Lee County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Greater Pine Island Water Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lee County Utilities | 282,556 | 1.1 ppb |
| Cape Coral, City Of | 172,693 | 1.4 ppb |
| City Of Fort Myers Water Treatment Plant | 92,219 | 0.4 ppb |
| Bonita Springs Utilities | 76,033 | 2.1 ppb |
| Florida Governmental Utility Authority | 32,296 | 5.3 ppb |
| Island Water Association | 14,784 | 0.7 ppb |
| Gateway Services District | 14,553 | 1.9 ppb |
| Town Of Fort Myers Beach (Beach Water) | 6,499 | 5.2 ppb |
| Citrus Park Rv Resort (Bonita Terra) | 3,282 | 2.8 ppb |
| Lake Fairways Mobile Home Park | 2,000 | 0.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bokeelia, 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 Greater Pine Island Water Association 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.