Port St Lucie Utilities, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.6 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 St Lucie Utilities
Port St Lucie Utilities serves about 224,485 people through 89,794 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in St. Lucie County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4560954; phone on file: 772-873-6400. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.7 ppb from 1.9 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Port St Lucie Utilities is 4.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.7 ppb |
| 2016 | 4.7 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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 St Lucie Utilities's 4.6 ppb sits at the 91st percentile in Florida and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in St. Lucie County
18 other systems share St. Lucie County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Port St Lucie Utilities. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ft. Pierce Utilities Authority | 58,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| St. Lucie West Services District | 21,400 | 1 ppb |
| St Lucie County Util North County System | 5,073 | 0.9 ppb |
| North Hutchinson Island | 3,954 | 1 ppb |
| Spanish Lakes Fairways | 3,120 | 0.2 ppb |
| Nettles Island | 3,056 | 1 ppb |
| Indian River Estates | 2,365 | 10 ppb |
| Spanish Lakes Country Club Village | 2,331 | 0.3 ppb |
| Harbour Ridge | 1,573 | 0 (not detected) |
| Grove , The | 1,125 | 0.5 ppb |
Next steps for Port St Lucie, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Port St Lucie, 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 St Lucie Utilities 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.