Little Wekiva Estates, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.2 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.
Little Wekiva Estates at a glance
Little Wekiva Estates serves about 214 people through 61 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Seminole County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3590762; phone on file: 919-257-1182. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Little Wekiva Estates's lead record
That is up 3.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Little Wekiva Estates is 3.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Little Wekiva Estates 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 Wekiva Estates's 3.2 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Florida and the 84th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
37 other systems share Seminole County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Little Wekiva Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sanford, City Of (2 Wps) | 79,715 | 0.8 ppb |
| Seminole County Southeast | 70,040 | 1.2 ppb |
| Casselberry, City Of (3 Wps) | 54,747 | 0 (not detected) |
| Altamonte Springs Water Dept (2 Wps) | 51,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oviedo, City Of | 47,933 | 2.1 ppb |
| Sanlando (3 Wtps) | 36,953 | 1.5 ppb |
| Winter Springs, City Of (3 Wps) | 34,657 | 0.6 ppb |
| Seminole County Northwest | 31,986 | 0 (not detected) |
| Longwood, City Of (2 Wps) | 23,237 | 1.6 ppb |
| Seminole County Northeast | 19,925 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Altamonte Springs, 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 Wekiva Estates 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.