Marco Island Utilities (City Of), FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 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.
About Marco Island Utilities (City Of)
Marco Island Utilities (City Of) serves about 31,830 people through 10,301 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Collier County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL5110183; phone on file: 239-389-5181. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Marco Island Utilities (City Of)'s lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (2.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Marco Island Utilities (City Of) is 3.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.1 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. Marco Island Utilities (City Of)'s 2.9 ppb sits at the 82nd percentile in Florida and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
9 other systems share Collier County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Marco Island Utilities (City Of). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Collier County Regional Wtp | 216,993 | 1.2 ppb |
| Naples Water Dept | 83,804 | 1.3 ppb |
| Immokalee Water | 26,841 | 0.9 ppb |
| Ave Maria Utility Company, Lllp | 11,982 | 0.4 ppb |
| Everglades City | 2,978 | 4.3 ppb |
| Port Of The Islands | 1,200 | 0.1 ppb |
| Goodland Water Company | 853 | 4.7 ppb |
| Lee Cypress Co-Op | 82 | 4.6 ppb |
| Big Cypress Park Headquarters | 50 | 7.4 ppb |
Next steps for Marco Island, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Marco Island, 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 Marco Island Utilities (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.