North Bay Village, City Of, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 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 North Bay Village, City Of
North Bay Village, City Of serves about 8,317 people through 608 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4130970; phone on file: 305-756-7171. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
North Bay Village, City Of's lead record
That is down 2.4 ppb from 3.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Bay Village, City Of is 5.8 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
| 2017 | 5.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.2 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. North Bay Village, City Of's 0.9 ppb sits at the 43rd percentile in Florida and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Miami-Dade County
24 other systems share Miami-Dade County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than North Bay Village, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Mdwasa - Main System | 2,377,460 | 3.1 ppb |
| Hialeah, City Of | 238,000 | 0.9 ppb |
| North Miami Beach | 180,000 | 2.1 ppb |
| Miami Beach, City Of | 100,000 | 7 ppb |
| North Miami, City Of | 89,349 | 1.8 ppb |
| Fkaa J. Robert Dean W.T.P. | 86,000 | 4 ppb |
| Homestead, City Of | 80,000 | 2.5 ppb |
| Mdwasa/Rex Utilities | 45,200 | 1 ppb |
| Hialeah Gardens | 22,200 | 1.5 ppb |
| Opa Locka, City Of | 16,479 | 0.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; North Bay Village, 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 North Bay Village, 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.