Heathrow Country Estates (Red Tail), FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Heathrow Country Estates (Red Tail) at a glance
Heathrow Country Estates (Red Tail) serves about 1,057 people through 302 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 Lake County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3354954; phone on file: 352-357-5618. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.3 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Heathrow Country Estates (Red Tail) is 1.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
How Heathrow Country Estates (Red Tail) compares
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. Heathrow Country Estates (Red Tail)'s 1.3 ppb sits at the 58th percentile in Florida and the 60th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
121 other systems share Lake County; 43 of them have a higher latest lead result than Heathrow Country Estates (Red Tail). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Leesburg, City Of | 46,921 | 1.8 ppb |
| Eustis, City Of (4 Wtps) | 39,721 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Dora, City Of (2wps) | 39,710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clermont East Water System (2 Wps) | 39,279 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Utility Services Inc North (8 Wps) | 24,798 | 1 ppb |
| Groveland Water Department | 23,628 | 2.5 ppb |
| Tavares Water Department (4 Wps) | 22,007 | 0.8 ppb |
| Minneola Water Department (2 Wps) | 20,605 | 2.5 ppb |
| Villages Of Lake-Sumter - Wtps 1, 3, ; 5 | 18,675 | 0.6 ppb |
| Lake Utility Services Inc South | 13,198 | 2.5 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Eustis, 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 Heathrow Country Estates (Red Tail) 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.