Gulf Breeze Regional Water System, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.3 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.
Gulf Breeze Regional Water System at a glance
Gulf Breeze Regional Water System serves about 17,596 people through 7,340 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Santa Rosa County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1570316; phone on file: 850-934-5108. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Gulf Breeze Regional Water System's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (2.3 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gulf Breeze Regional Water System is 2.3 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 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. Gulf Breeze Regional Water System's 2.3 ppb sits at the 76th percentile in Florida and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Santa Rosa County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gulf Breeze Regional Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pace Water System, Inc. | 49,328 | 2.6 ppb |
| Holley-Navarre Water System | 47,793 | 6.2 ppb |
| Milton, City Of Water System | 21,241 | 4.6 ppb |
| Midway Water System, Inc. | 21,196 | 2.1 ppb |
| East Milton Water System | 17,292 | 3 ppb |
| Point Baker Water System, Inc. | 11,318 | 1.1 ppb |
| Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System | 10,896 | 3.2 ppb |
| Navarre Beach Water System | 6,166 | 1.3 ppb |
| Chumuckla Water System, Inc. | 5,527 | 1.1 ppb |
| Moore Creek Mount Carmel Utilities | 4,875 | 1.7 ppb |
Next steps for Gulf Breeze, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gulf Breeze, 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 Gulf Breeze Regional Water System 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.