Paradise Lakes, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 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
Paradise Lakes serves about 1,173 people through 350 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pasco County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6514545; phone on file: 407-629-6900. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (2.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Paradise Lakes is 13 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2024 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 5.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2017 | 4.6 ppb |
How Paradise Lakes 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. Paradise Lakes's 1.9 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in Florida and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Pasco County
63 other systems share Pasco County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Paradise Lakes. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pcud-Pasco County Regional Pws | 214,403 | 1 ppb |
| New Port Richey Water Dept | 33,000 | 2 ppb |
| Seven Springs | 32,834 | 1.2 ppb |
| Zephyrhills City Of | 29,117 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dade City Water Dept | 15,561 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aloha Gardens Utilities | 8,136 | 1.6 ppb |
| Port Richey Water Dept-City Of | 7,732 | 1.3 ppb |
| Hudson Water Works | 7,169 | 5 ppb |
| Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East) | 7,021 | 0 (not detected) |
| Orangewood Water System | 6,464 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for Longwood, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Longwood, 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 Paradise Lakes whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1600 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.