Milton, City Of Water System, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.6 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Milton, City Of Water System
Milton, City Of Water System serves about 21,241 people through 7,193 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Santa Rosa County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1570146; phone on file: 850-983-5400. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (4.9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Milton, City Of Water System is 17 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 4.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 17 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 6.1 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. Milton, City Of Water System's 4.6 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Florida and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
14 other systems share Santa Rosa County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Milton, City Of Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pace Water System, Inc. | 49,328 | 2.6 ppb |
| Holley-Navarre Water System | 47,793 | 6.2 ppb |
| Midway Water System, Inc. | 21,196 | 2.1 ppb |
| Gulf Breeze Regional Water System | 17,596 | 2.3 ppb |
| East Milton Water System | 17,292 | 3 ppb |
| Point Baker Water System, Inc. | 11,318 | 1.1 ppb |
| Bagdad-Garcon Point Water System | 10,896 | 3.2 ppb |
| Navarre Beach Water System | 6,166 | 1.3 ppb |
| Chumuckla Water System, Inc. | 5,527 | 1.1 ppb |
| Moore Creek Mount Carmel Utilities | 4,875 | 1.7 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Milton, 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 Milton, City Of Water System 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.