Pelican Lake Water Plant, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 10 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.
Pelican Lake Water Plant at a glance
Pelican Lake Water Plant serves about 222 people through 69 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Palm Beach County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4505002; phone on file: 832-521-1880. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2022 (9 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pelican Lake Water Plant is 10 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 ppb |
| 2022 | 9 ppb |
| 2019 | 4 ppb |
| 2018 | 9.5 ppb |
How Pelican Lake Water Plant 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. Pelican Lake Water Plant's 10 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in Florida and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
31 other systems share Palm Beach County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pelican Lake Water Plant. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach County Water Utilities | 671,114 | 1.4 ppb |
| West Palm Beach Wtp | 132,000 | 3 ppb |
| Boca Raton Wtp | 130,000 | 0.6 ppb |
| Boynton Beach Pws | 112,000 | 4.4 ppb |
| Seacoast Utilities Authority | 97,552 | 1.6 ppb |
| Jupiter Public Water System,Town Of | 94,929 | 0.9 ppb |
| Delray Beach Public Water System | 69,754 | 3.7 ppb |
| Wellington Wtp | 56,475 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lake Worth Beach Utilities | 48,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Riviera Beach Utility District, City Of | 46,762 | 2.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; South 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 Pelican Lake Water Plant whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1390 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.