R.C. Willis Wtp (City Of Palatka), FL
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 16.8 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
R.C. Willis Wtp (City Of Palatka) at a glance
R.C. Willis Wtp (City Of Palatka) serves about 11,900 people through 6,175 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Putnam County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2544260; phone on file: 386-329-0100. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 16.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for R.C. Willis Wtp (City Of Palatka) is 16.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 16.8 ppb over 15 |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 1.5 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. R.C. Willis Wtp (City Of Palatka)'s 16.8 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Florida and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Putnam County
29 other systems share Putnam County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than R.C. Willis Wtp (City Of Palatka). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Town Of Welaka | 2,421 | 0 (not detected) |
| Crescent City Wtp | 1,900 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Putnam Regional | 1,500 | 1.1 ppb |
| Melrose Wtp | 1,300 | 3.4 ppb |
| Rpuma | 1,000 | 1 ppb |
| Interlachen Ws | 791 | 0.7 ppb |
| Interlachen Lake Estates | 717 | 0 (not detected) |
| Pomona Park | 672 | 0 (not detected) |
| Hermits Cove Water System | 558 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Como Water Association | 450 | 6.4 ppb |
What to do in your house
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask R.C. Willis Wtp (City Of Palatka) 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.