Pinewood Water, 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.
Who runs the water here
Pinewood Water serves about 100 people through 40 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Citrus County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6094874; phone on file: 352-613-0103. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is down 1.8 ppb from 1.8 ppb in the period ending 2018. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Pinewood Water is 1.8 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.8 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. Pinewood Water's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 8th percentile in Florida and the 9th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Citrus County
43 other systems share Citrus County; 25 of them have a higher latest lead result than Pinewood Water. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Citrus Co Utl/Charles A. Black | 29,218 | 1.4 ppb |
| Citrus Springs - Pine Ridge | 26,781 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sugarmill Woods S/D | 13,935 | 1.9 ppb |
| Inverness Water Dept | 7,194 | 1.2 ppb |
| Floral City Water Assn | 5,917 | 2.7 ppb |
| Homosassa Special Water District | 5,548 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ozello Water Association | 5,220 | 2.3 ppb |
| Crystal River, City Of | 4,528 | 2.3 ppb |
| Point O'Woods | 1,168 | 0.3 ppb |
| Cinnamon Ridge Utilities #2 | 638 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Inglis, FL
Look up your address in Pinewood Water'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 Pinewood Water 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.