Nas Pensacola / Corry Station, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.8 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.
Nas Pensacola / Corry Station at a glance
Nas Pensacola / Corry Station serves about 22,600 people through 539 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is federally owned and draws groundwater, in Escambia County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1170814; phone on file: 850-452-6336. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.9 ppb from 0.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Nas Pensacola / Corry Station is 2.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Nas Pensacola / Corry Station's 2.8 ppb sits at the 81st percentile in Florida and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
11 other systems share Escambia County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Nas Pensacola / Corry Station. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (Ecua) | 242,172 | 0.6 ppb |
| Peoples Water Service Company | 24,806 | 9 ppb |
| University Of West Florida | 13,285 | 2.1 ppb |
| Farm Hill Utilities, Inc. | 10,346 | 2.1 ppb |
| Molino Utilities, Inc. | 8,845 | 0.3 ppb |
| Cottage Hill Water Works | 6,737 | 3.7 ppb |
| Gonzalez Utilities Association, Inc. | 6,668 | 5 ppb |
| Erec Water System | 4,238 | 1 ppb |
| Century, Town Of | 3,490 | 0.4 ppb |
| Central Water Works | 2,560 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Nas Pensacola, 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 Nas Pensacola / Corry Station 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.