Laurel Hill, City Of, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 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.
Laurel Hill, City Of at a glance
Laurel Hill, City Of serves about 1,802 people through 565 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Okaloosa County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1460416; phone on file: 850-652-4441. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2020 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Laurel Hill, City Of is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 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. Laurel Hill, City Of's 2 ppb sits at the 71st percentile in Florida and the 72nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
20 other systems share Okaloosa County; 13 of them have a higher latest lead result than Laurel Hill, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okaloosa Co.Wtr.; Swr.System | 80,295 | 2.6 ppb |
| Crestview, City Of Water Dept. | 34,789 | 1.3 ppb |
| Destin Water Users, Inc. | 31,752 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fort Walton Beach, City Of | 24,113 | 1.7 ppb |
| Auburn Water System | 22,903 | 1.7 ppb |
| Niceville, City Of | 22,243 | 4.6 ppb |
| Okaloosa County Bluewater Bay-Raintree | 17,592 | 1.6 ppb |
| Hurlburt Field Water System | 10,006 | 6.3 ppb |
| Okaloosa County Mid System (Crestview) | 7,593 | 3 ppb |
| Valparaiso, City Of | 5,722 | 3.3 ppb |
Next steps for Laurel Hill, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Laurel Hill, 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 Laurel Hill, City Of 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.