Highland Beach Water Plant, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.5 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. 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.
About Highland Beach Water Plant
Highland Beach Water Plant serves about 4,287 people through 572 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized 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: FL4500609; phone on file: 561-278-4548. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Highland Beach Water Plant's lead record
That is down 1.2 ppb from 4.7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Highland Beach Water Plant is 92 ppb across 8 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 92 ppb over 15 |
How Highland Beach Water Plant 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. Highland Beach Water Plant's 3.5 ppb sits at the 87th percentile in Florida and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Palm Beach County
31 other systems share Palm Beach County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Highland Beach Water Plant. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Highland Beach, 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 Highland Beach Water Plant 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.