Okaloosa Correctional Inst., FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
About Okaloosa Correctional Inst.
Okaloosa Correctional Inst. serves about 1,800 people through 50 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by the state and draws groundwater, in Okaloosa County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1464034; phone on file: 850-717-3890. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Okaloosa Correctional Inst.'s lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Okaloosa Correctional Inst. is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0 (not detected) |
How Okaloosa Correctional Inst. 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. Okaloosa Correctional Inst.'s 1 ppb sits at the 50th percentile in Florida and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Okaloosa County
20 other systems share Okaloosa County; 19 of them have a higher latest lead result than Okaloosa Correctional Inst.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okaloosa Co.Wtr.; Swr.System | 80,295 | 2.6 ppb |
| Crestview, City Of Water Dept. | 34,789 | 1.3 ppb |
| Destin Water Users, Inc. | 31,752 | 2.2 ppb |
| Fort Walton Beach, City Of | 24,113 | 1.7 ppb |
| Auburn Water System | 22,903 | 1.7 ppb |
| Niceville, City Of | 22,243 | 4.6 ppb |
| Okaloosa County Bluewater Bay-Raintree | 17,592 | 1.6 ppb |
| Hurlburt Field Water System | 10,006 | 6.3 ppb |
| Okaloosa County Mid System (Crestview) | 7,593 | 3 ppb |
| Valparaiso, City Of | 5,722 | 3.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Tallahassee, 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 Okaloosa Correctional Inst. 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.