North Port Utilities, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.4 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
North Port Utilities serves about 61,163 people through 28,581 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 surface water, in Sarasota County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6580651; phone on file: 941-426-3766. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.5 ppb from 1.9 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for North Port Utilities is 5 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 5 ppb |
| 2017 | 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 Port Utilities's 3.4 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in Florida and the 85th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Sarasota County
12 other systems share Sarasota County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than North Port Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sarasota Co Special Util Dist | 272,267 | 0.5 ppb |
| Sarasota-City Of | 55,364 | 1 ppb |
| Englewood Water Dist | 38,265 | 6.1 ppb |
| Venice Water Dept City Of | 31,358 | 0.3 ppb |
| Pluris-South Gate Utilities | 15,897 | 1 ppb |
| Camelot Lakes | 1,700 | 0.6 ppb |
| Kings Gate Club | 838 | 0.4 ppb |
| Lake Tippecanoe | 361 | 3.5 ppb |
| Windward Isle Mhp Water System | 321 | 0.3 ppb |
| Venice Ranch Mobile Home Estates | 295 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; North Port, 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 Port Utilities 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.