Lakeview Terrace Retirement Services, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.2 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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.
Who runs the water here
Lakeview Terrace Retirement Services serves about 324 people through 38 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Lake County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3350730; phone on file: 407-645-3211. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lakeview Terrace Retirement Services's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (0.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lakeview Terrace Retirement Services is 0.6 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Lakeview Terrace Retirement Services 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. Lakeview Terrace Retirement Services's 0.2 ppb sits at the 26th percentile in Florida and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
121 other systems share Lake County; 95 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lakeview Terrace Retirement Services. 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Winter Park, 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 Lakeview Terrace Retirement Services 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.