Interlachen Lake Estates, FL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Interlachen Lake Estates serves about 717 people through 289 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Putnam County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2540545; phone on file: 407-629-6900. 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 4.1 ppb from 4.1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Interlachen Lake Estates is 4.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Interlachen Lake Estates's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Florida and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
29 other systems share Putnam County; 16 of them have a higher latest lead result than Interlachen Lake Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| R.C. Willis Wtp (City Of Palatka) | 11,900 | 16.8 ppb |
| Town Of Welaka | 2,421 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crescent City Wtp | 1,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Putnam Regional | 1,500 | 1.1 ppb |
| Melrose Wtp | 1,300 | 3.4 ppb |
| Rpuma | 1,000 | 1 ppb |
| Interlachen Ws | 791 | 0.7 ppb |
| Pomona Park | 672 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hermits Cove Water System | 558 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Como Water Association | 450 | 6.4 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Interlachen Lake Estates's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Interlachen Lake Estates 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.