Orange City Utilities, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.9 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 Orange City Utilities
Orange City Utilities serves about 12,507 people through 4,092 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 Volusia County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3640946; phone on file: 386-775-5444. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.4 ppb from 2.5 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orange City Utilities is 3.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.4 ppb |
How Orange City Utilities 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. Orange City Utilities's 3.9 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Florida and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
40 other systems share Volusia County; 10 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orange City Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Daytona Beach, City Of | 87,534 | 3.3 ppb |
| Deltona Water | 81,006 | 0 (not detected) |
| Port Orange, City Of | 71,096 | 2 ppb |
| City Of New Smyrna Beach | 69,409 | 3.3 ppb |
| Ormond Beach | 59,744 | 3.8 ppb |
| Deland, City Of | 50,910 | 2 ppb |
| Edgewater, City Of | 28,552 | 4.9 ppb |
| Vc/Southwest Water System | 19,672 | 1.9 ppb |
| South Daytona, City Of | 14,435 | 2.1 ppb |
| City Of Holly Hill | 13,108 | 4.1 ppb |
Next steps for Orange City, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orange City, 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 Orange City 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.