Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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.
About Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps
Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps serves about 4,642 people through 1,857 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sumter County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6600990; phone on file: 352-793-4236. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps is 3.5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.5 ppb |
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. Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps's 1.3 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Florida and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Sumter County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| North Sumter Utility 3wps | 45,214 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood, City Of (7 Wps) | 25,941 | 0 (not detected) |
| Little Sumter Utilities 3wps | 25,538 | 6.8 ppb |
| South Sumter Utilities | 24,278 | 0 (not detected) |
| Csu Wtp No. 1 | 19,699 | 1.5 ppb |
| Gibson Place Utilities | 9,770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Village Of Pine Ridge (Consec) | 3,914 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bushnell, City Of (2 Wps) | 3,047 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sumter Correctional Institution | 2,008 | 2.3 ppb |
| Middleton Utilities | 1,554 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lake Panasoffkee, 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 Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2010 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.