Hcwrd/South-Central, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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
Hcwrd/South-Central serves about 515,012 people through 151,796 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Hillsborough County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6290787; phone on file: 813-612-7761. 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 2020 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Hcwrd/South-Central is 0.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.8 ppb |
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. Hcwrd/South-Central's 0.7 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in Florida and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
141 other systems share Hillsborough County; 38 of them have a higher latest lead result than Hcwrd/South-Central. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Tampa Water Department | 733,886 | 1.5 ppb |
| Hcwrc/Northwest Utilities | 208,982 | 0.8 ppb |
| University Of South Florida | 47,586 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Plant City Utility | 41,601 | 1 ppb |
| City Of Temple Terrace Utility | 31,250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hcwrd/Seaboard Utilities | 13,958 | 1.4 ppb |
| Fgua / Macdill | 11,965 | 2.7 ppb |
| Hcwrc/Pebble Creek Subdivision | 4,757 | 1.1 ppb |
| Windemere Utility | 3,080 | 3.2 ppb |
| Hcwrd/Eastlake | 2,074 | 2.1 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tampa, 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 Hcwrd/South-Central 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.