Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.2 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.
Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid at a glance
Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid serves about 2,303 people through 872 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in St. Johns County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2554334; phone on file: 904-665-4540. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid's lead record
That is up 1.9 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid is 3.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid 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. Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid's 3.2 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Florida and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share St. Johns County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sjcu-Cr214 Mainland Wtp | 66,953 | 0.6 ppb |
| Sjcu-Northwest Utilities Wtp | 48,040 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Augustine Ws | 43,069 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sjcu-Ponte Vedra Ws | 15,565 | 0.9 ppb |
| Sjcu-Northeast Utilities Ws | 14,790 | 1 ppb |
| Sjcu-Sawgrass Grid | 13,023 | 0.9 ppb |
| Jea: Ponte Vedra Grid | 5,395 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sjcu-North Beach Utilities | 4,200 | 0.6 ppb |
| Sjcu-Hastings Wtp | 1,095 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jea: Palm Valley Ws | 965 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Jacksonville, 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 Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.