Gulfstream, Town Of, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Gulfstream, Town Of at a glance
Gulfstream, Town Of serves about 1,001 people through 340 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Palm Beach County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4500565; phone on file: 561-276-5116. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 3 ppb from 4.3 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Gulfstream, Town Of is 16 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 10 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2019 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2016 | 3.9 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. Gulfstream, Town Of's 1.3 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Florida and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Palm Beach County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Gulfstream, Town Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach County Water Utilities | 671,114 | 1.4 ppb |
| West Palm Beach Wtp | 132,000 | 3 ppb |
| Boca Raton Wtp | 130,000 | 0.6 ppb |
| Boynton Beach Pws | 112,000 | 4.4 ppb |
| Seacoast Utilities Authority | 97,552 | 1.6 ppb |
| Jupiter Public Water System,Town Of | 94,929 | 0.9 ppb |
| Delray Beach Public Water System | 69,754 | 3.7 ppb |
| Wellington Wtp | 56,475 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lake Worth Beach Utilities | 48,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Riviera Beach Utility District, City Of | 46,762 | 2.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gulfstream, 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 Gulfstream, Town 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.