Penney Retirement Community, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 9.8 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Penney Retirement Community at a glance
Penney Retirement Community serves about 450 people through 28 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Clay County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2100882; phone on file: 904-531-7029. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Penney Retirement Community's lead record
That is up 7.3 ppb from 2.5 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Penney Retirement Community is 26.8 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 9.8 ppb |
| 2025 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 5.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 26.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.1 ppb |
How Penney Retirement Community 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. Penney Retirement Community's 9.8 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in Florida and the 97th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Clay County
10 other systems share Clay County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Penney Retirement Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orange Park Grid | 127,904 | 0.8 ppb |
| 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 |
| Pier Station Wtp | 270 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kingsley Cove | 196 | 1.1 ppb |
| Lake Geneva Mhp | 95 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Penney Farms, 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 Penney Retirement Community 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.