Palm Bay, City Of, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.1 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.
Palm Bay, City Of at a glance
Palm Bay, City Of serves about 140,750 people through 42,859 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Brevard County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3050442; phone on file: 321-952-3400. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.2 ppb from 3.3 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Palm Bay, City Of is 3.4 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2019 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 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. Palm Bay, City Of's 2.1 ppb sits at the 74th percentile in Florida and the 74th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Brevard County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Palm Bay, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cocoa, City Of | 294,039 | 2.2 ppb |
| Melbourne, City Of | 167,753 | 1.2 ppb |
| Titusville, City Of | 57,218 | 3 ppb |
| West Melbourne Wtr Sys(Consec) | 30,443 | 1.1 ppb |
| Barefoot Bay | 10,290 | 3.2 ppb |
| Mims Water Treatment / North Brevard Co. | 7,958 | 1.3 ppb |
| Patrick Space Force Base(Consec) | 7,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Brevard Water Co-Op | 1,537 | 0.4 ppb |
| South Shores Utility Association | 900 | 0.4 ppb |
| San Sebastian Woods | 524 | 0.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Palm Bay, 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 Palm Bay, City Of 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.