Lantana Water Treatment Plant, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Lantana Water Treatment Plant at a glance
Lantana Water Treatment Plant serves about 11,558 people through 3,374 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 groundwater, in Palm Beach County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4500784; phone on file: 561-540-5764. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lantana Water Treatment Plant's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lantana Water Treatment Plant is 11.3 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 11.3 ppb over 10 |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.6 ppb |
How Lantana Water Treatment Plant 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. Lantana Water Treatment Plant's 1 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Florida and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Palm Beach County; 20 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lantana Water Treatment Plant. 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 |
| Lake Worth Beach Utilities | 48,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Riviera Beach Utility District, City Of | 46,762 | 2.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lantana, 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 Lantana Water Treatment Plant whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1910 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. 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.