Oak Park, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.4 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. 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 Oak Park
Oak Park serves about 100 people through 45 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Okeechobee County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4474467; phone on file: 724-321-4110. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.7 ppb from 1.7 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Oak Park is 5.4 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.4 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. Oak Park's 5.4 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in Florida and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Okeechobee County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Oak Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okeechobee Utility Authority | 20,000 | 5.4 ppb |
| Okeechobee Correctional Inst | 1,700 | 0.6 ppb |
| Ancient Oaks Rv Resort | 745 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Cypress Golf ; Rv Park | 418 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcarthur/Line 7/Sw | 144 | 1.5 ppb |
| Villa Margaret | 132 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcarthur/Line 1/Ne | 56 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oaks At Okeechobee | 30 | - |
Next steps for Okeechobee, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Okeechobee, 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 Oak Park 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.