Port Labelle, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
About Port Labelle
Port Labelle serves about 11,782 people through 4,208 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Hendry County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL5260226; phone on file: 863-675-5222. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Port Labelle's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Port Labelle is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 0.7 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. Port Labelle's 2 ppb sits at the 72nd percentile in Florida and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Hendry County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Port Labelle. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Clewiston, City Of | 9,643 | 0.3 ppb |
| City Of Labelle | 6,790 | 3.6 ppb |
| South Shore Water Assn., Inc. | 4,498 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverbend Motorcoach Resort | 309 | 1 ppb |
| Liberty Shores | 290 | 1.8 ppb |
| Palm And Pines Mobile Home Pk | 284 | 12.8 ppb |
| Riverbend Estates | 200 | 1 ppb |
| Riverlandings Water Treatment Plant | 134 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Labelle, 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 Port Labelle 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.