Lake Saunders, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.6 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 Lake Saunders
Lake Saunders serves about 161 people through 45 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Lake County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3354695; phone on file: 919-257-1182. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is up 3 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Saunders is 61.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 61.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.2 ppb |
How Lake Saunders 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. Lake Saunders's 4.6 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Florida and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
121 other systems share Lake County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Saunders. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Leesburg, City Of | 46,921 | 1.8 ppb |
| Eustis, City Of (4 Wtps) | 39,721 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mount Dora, City Of (2wps) | 39,710 | 0 (not detected) |
| Clermont East Water System (2 Wps) | 39,279 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Utility Services Inc North (8 Wps) | 24,798 | 1 ppb |
| Groveland Water Department | 23,628 | 2.5 ppb |
| Tavares Water Department (4 Wps) | 22,007 | 0.8 ppb |
| Minneola Water Department (2 Wps) | 20,605 | 2.5 ppb |
| Villages Of Lake-Sumter - Wtps 1, 3, ; 5 | 18,675 | 0.6 ppb |
| Lake Utility Services Inc South | 13,198 | 2.5 ppb |
Next steps for Altamonte Springs, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Altamonte Springs, 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 Saunders 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.