Inverness Water Dept, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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.
Inverness Water Dept at a glance
Inverness Water Dept serves about 7,194 people through 5,139 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 Citrus County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6090861; phone on file: 352-726-2611. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Inverness Water Dept is 8.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 8.9 ppb |
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. Inverness Water Dept's 1.2 ppb sits at the 57th percentile in Florida and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
43 other systems share Citrus County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Inverness Water Dept. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Citrus Co Utl/Charles A. Black | 29,218 | 1.4 ppb |
| Citrus Springs - Pine Ridge | 26,781 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sugarmill Woods S/D | 13,935 | 1.9 ppb |
| Floral City Water Assn | 5,917 | 2.7 ppb |
| Homosassa Special Water District | 5,548 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ozello Water Association | 5,220 | 2.3 ppb |
| Crystal River, City Of | 4,528 | 2.3 ppb |
| Point O'Woods | 1,168 | 0.3 ppb |
| Cinnamon Ridge Utilities #2 | 638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oak Forest | 528 | 1.1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Inverness, 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 Inverness Water Dept 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.