Liberty Shores, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.8 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 Liberty Shores
Liberty Shores serves about 290 people through 145 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 Hendry County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL5264113; phone on file: 239-645-0713. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Liberty Shores's lead record
That is down 4.3 ppb from 6.1 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Liberty Shores is 6.1 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2024 | 6.1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Liberty Shores's 1.8 ppb sits at the 68th percentile in Florida and the 67th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Hendry County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Liberty Shores. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Port Labelle | 11,782 | 2 ppb |
| Clewiston, City Of | 9,643 | 0.3 ppb |
| City Of Labelle | 6,790 | 3.6 ppb |
| South Shore Water Assn., Inc. | 4,498 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverbend Motorcoach Resort | 309 | 1 ppb |
| Palm And Pines Mobile Home Pk | 284 | 12.8 ppb |
| Riverbend Estates | 200 | 1 ppb |
| Riverlandings Water Treatment Plant | 134 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tampa, 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 Liberty Shores 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.