Meadows Grocery, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.9 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.
Who runs the water here
Meadows Grocery serves about 55 people through 15 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Gadsden County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1204067; phone on file: 850-442-9212. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Meadows Grocery's lead record
That is up 3.4 ppb from 1.5 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Meadows Grocery is 4.9 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 2 ppb |
| 2016 | 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. Meadows Grocery's 4.9 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Florida and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Gadsden County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Meadows Grocery. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gadsden Co Regional W/S | 12,322 | 2 ppb |
| Quincy, City Of W/S | 10,298 | 1.3 ppb |
| Havana, Town Of Water System | 3,860 | 1 ppb |
| Gretna, City Of | 3,508 | 2 ppb |
| Florida State Hospital | 3,200 | 11 ppb |
| Chattahoochee, City Of | 2,959 | 4.1 ppb |
| Greensboro, Town Of Water Sys. | 794 | 1.5 ppb |
| Tobacco Road | 146 | 0.2 ppb |
| Rosedale Water Association | 143 | 1.8 ppb |
| Jamieson Water System | 129 | 0.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Quncy, 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 Meadows Grocery 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.