Horseshoe Beach Wtp, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 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.
About Horseshoe Beach Wtp
Horseshoe Beach Wtp serves about 300 people through 442 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Dixie County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2150512; phone on file: 352-498-5234. 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 down 1.6 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Horseshoe Beach Wtp is 35 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 4 ppb |
| 2023 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 35 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 6.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Horseshoe Beach Wtp's 2.4 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Florida and the 76th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Dixie County
3 other systems share Dixie County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Horseshoe Beach Wtp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cross City Wtp | 2,550 | 2.5 ppb |
| Suwannee Water ; Sewer District | 1,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Shady Oaks Rv ; Mhp | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Horseshoe Beach, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Horseshoe 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 Horseshoe Beach Wtp whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 3600 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.