Ocud/Southern Water Sys (5 Wps), FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 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
Ocud/Southern Water Sys (5 Wps) serves about 80,738 people through 23,068 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 Orange County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3484119; phone on file: 407-254-9830. 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 2024 (1.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ocud/Southern Water Sys (5 Wps) is 3.3 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.3 ppb |
How Ocud/Southern Water Sys (5 Wps) compares
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. Ocud/Southern Water Sys (5 Wps)'s 1.6 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Florida and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
40 other systems share Orange County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ocud/Southern Water Sys (5 Wps). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orlando Utilities Commission | 536,466 | 2 ppb |
| Ocud/Eastern Water System (2 Wp) | 293,374 | 0.9 ppb |
| Ocud/Western Regional Wtr Sys (5 Wps) | 206,742 | 0.8 ppb |
| Cftod Central (4 Wps) | 136,500 | 1.3 ppb |
| Winter Park, City Of (3 Wps) | 82,984 | 1.4 ppb |
| Winter Garden Water Dept (3 Wps) | 72,205 | 3.1 ppb |
| Apopka, City Of (5 Wtps) | 71,917 | 0 (not detected) |
| University Of Central Florida | 44,103 | 4.7 ppb |
| Ocoee, City Of (2 Wps) | 34,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maitland, City Of (3 Wps) | 13,370 | 1.2 ppb |
Next steps for Orlando, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orlando, 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 Ocud/Southern Water Sys (5 Wps) 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.