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Pcud-Florida Estates (East Pasco), FL

Lead reported as not detected

Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2021-2021). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.

About Pcud-Florida Estates (East Pasco)

Pcud-Florida Estates (East Pasco) serves about 614 people through 236 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Pasco County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6510603; phone on file: 813-929-2755. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.

Lead results over time

Against the period ending 2018 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pcud-Florida Estates (East Pasco) is 0.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Period ending90th-percentile lead
20210 (not detected)
20180.8 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. Pcud-Florida Estates (East Pasco)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 18th percentile in Florida and the 24th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.

Neighbouring systems

63 other systems share Pasco County; 37 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pcud-Florida Estates (East Pasco). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.

SystemPeopleLatest lead
Pcud-Pasco County Regional Pws214,4031 ppb
New Port Richey Water Dept33,0002 ppb
Seven Springs32,8341.2 ppb
Zephyrhills City Of29,1170 (not detected)
Dade City Water Dept15,5610 (not detected)
Aloha Gardens Utilities8,1361.6 ppb
Port Richey Water Dept-City Of7,7321.3 ppb
Hudson Water Works7,1695 ppb
Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East)7,0210 (not detected)
Orangewood Water System6,4641.4 ppb

What to do in your house

Look up your address in Pcud-Florida Estates (East Pasco)'s service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Pcud-Florida Estates (East Pasco) 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.