Orange Park Grid, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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.
Orange Park Grid at a glance
Orange Park Grid serves about 127,904 people through 46,342 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Clay County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2100741; phone on file: 904-213-2477. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (0.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Orange Park Grid is 0.8 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2022 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 0.3 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. Orange Park Grid's 0.8 ppb sits at the 41st percentile in Florida and the 48th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Clay County
10 other systems share Clay County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Orange Park Grid. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Asbury Grid | 27,001 | 0.7 ppb |
| Town Of Orange Park | 8,668 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Green Cove Springs Wtp | 7,000 | 0.5 ppb |
| Keystone Postmaster Grid | 5,092 | 2.3 ppb |
| Camp Blanding Joint Training Center | 900 | 1.4 ppb |
| Town Of Penney Farms Wtp | 489 | 5.1 ppb |
| Penney Retirement Community | 450 | 9.8 ppb |
| Pier Station Wtp | 270 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kingsley Cove | 196 | 1.1 ppb |
| Lake Geneva Mhp | 95 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Middleburg, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Middleburg, 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 Park Grid 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.