Rainbow Lakes Estates, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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.
Who runs the water here
Rainbow Lakes Estates serves about 1,823 people through 521 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Marion County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6424083; phone on file: 352-307-4626. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Rainbow Lakes Estates is 490 ppb across 10 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 9.5 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 8.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 4.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 45 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 10 ppb |
| 2018 | 490 ppb over 15 |
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. Rainbow Lakes Estates's 1.4 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Florida and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
92 other systems share Marion County; 29 of them have a higher latest lead result than Rainbow Lakes Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ocala, City Of (2 Wtps) | 66,449 | 0.7 ppb |
| West Side Consolidated | 54,542 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Side Consolidated | 40,251 | 0 (not detected) |
| On Top Of The World | 22,383 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belleview, City Of (3 Wps) | 9,358 | 4.7 ppb |
| Spruce Creek North | 7,467 | 4.9 ppb |
| Ashley Farms | 4,784 | 1.8 ppb |
| Lowell Correctional Institution Annex | 2,974 | 1.4 ppb |
| Marion Correctional Institution | 2,700 | 0.6 ppb |
| Rolling Greens Village | 2,498 | 1.2 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Belleview, 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 Rainbow Lakes Estates 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.