Gru - Murphree Wtp, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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 Gru - Murphree Wtp
Gru - Murphree Wtp serves about 195,768 people through 67,469 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Alachua County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2010946; phone on file: 352-393-1291. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gru - Murphree Wtp is 1.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.4 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. Gru - Murphree Wtp's 0.7 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in Florida and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Alachua County
13 other systems share Alachua County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gru - Murphree Wtp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Gator Waterworks | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arredondo Estates | 738 | 0 (not detected) |
| Micanopy Water System | 605 | 1.5 ppb |
| Lake Alto Estates Mhp | 325 | 1.6 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gainesville, 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 Gru - Murphree 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.