Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands), FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.4 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 Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands)
Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands) serves about 800 people through 466 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Highlands County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6280304; phone on file: 727-848-8292. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands)'s lead record
That is down 1.2 ppb from 3.6 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands) is 7.8 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2016 | 7.8 ppb |
| 2016 | 1.4 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. Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands)'s 2.4 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Florida and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Highlands County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sebring Water ; Sewer System | 46,295 | 0.9 ppb |
| Avon Park, City Of | 19,361 | 9.6 ppb |
| Sun N Lakes Of Sebring Water | 7,710 | 0.7 ppb |
| Spring Lake Improvement Distirct | 4,098 | 2.3 ppb |
| Placid Lakes Utilities, Inc | 3,307 | 1.4 ppb |
| Lake Placid, Town Of | 2,671 | 3.1 ppb |
| Tomoka Heights | 2,656 | 0.6 ppb |
| Lake Josephine Heights | 1,325 | 1 ppb |
| Highway Park Wtp | 903 | 1 ppb |
| Tropical Harbor Estates | 650 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for New Port Richey, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Port Richey, 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 Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands) 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.