Little Sumter Utilities 3wps, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6.8 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.
Who runs the water here
Little Sumter Utilities 3wps serves about 25,538 people through 13,384 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sumter County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6604862; phone on file: 352-751-3939. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 5.8 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Little Sumter Utilities 3wps is 6.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 6.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.6 ppb |
How Little Sumter Utilities 3wps 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. Little Sumter Utilities 3wps's 6.8 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in Florida and the 94th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sumter County
23 other systems share Sumter County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Little Sumter Utilities 3wps. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| North Sumter Utility 3wps | 45,214 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood, City Of (7 Wps) | 25,941 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Sumter Utilities | 24,278 | 0 (not detected) |
| Csu Wtp No. 1 | 19,699 | 1.5 ppb |
| Gibson Place Utilities | 9,770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps | 4,642 | 1.3 ppb |
| Village Of Pine Ridge (Consec) | 3,914 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bushnell, City Of (2 Wps) | 3,047 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sumter Correctional Institution | 2,008 | 2.3 ppb |
| Middleton Utilities | 1,554 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for The Villages, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; The Villages, 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 Little Sumter Utilities 3wps 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.