Lake Worth Beach Utilities, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.3 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. 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 Worth Beach Utilities
Lake Worth Beach Utilities serves about 48,000 people through 13,500 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Palm Beach County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4500773; phone on file: 561-586-1675. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lake Worth Beach Utilities's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (2.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lake Worth Beach Utilities is 6.1 ppb across 11 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.8 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. Lake Worth Beach Utilities's 1.3 ppb sits at the 59th percentile in Florida and the 61st nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
31 other systems share Palm Beach County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lake Worth Beach Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach County Water Utilities | 671,114 | 1.4 ppb |
| West Palm Beach Wtp | 132,000 | 3 ppb |
| Boca Raton Wtp | 130,000 | 0.6 ppb |
| Boynton Beach Pws | 112,000 | 4.4 ppb |
| Seacoast Utilities Authority | 97,552 | 1.6 ppb |
| Jupiter Public Water System,Town Of | 94,929 | 0.9 ppb |
| Delray Beach Public Water System | 69,754 | 3.7 ppb |
| Wellington Wtp | 56,475 | 1.7 ppb |
| Riviera Beach Utility District, City Of | 46,762 | 2.4 ppb |
| Palm Springs, Village Of | 32,467 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Lake Worth, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lake Worth, 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 Worth Beach Utilities 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.