Santa Fe Hills Subdivision, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.4 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. 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.
Santa Fe Hills Subdivision at a glance
Santa Fe Hills Subdivision serves about 200 people through 73 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Alachua County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2011006; phone on file: 352-374-5245. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is down 2.1 ppb from 3.5 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Santa Fe Hills Subdivision is 131 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 3.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 131 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 11 ppb over 10 |
How Santa Fe Hills Subdivision compares
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. Santa Fe Hills Subdivision's 1.4 ppb sits at the 60th percentile in Florida and the 62nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Alachua County
13 other systems share Alachua County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Santa Fe Hills Subdivision. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gru - Murphree Wtp | 195,768 | 0.7 ppb |
| Alachua Wtp | 8,220 | 14 ppb |
| High Springs Wtp | 5,795 | 0 (not detected) |
| Newberry Wtp | 3,885 | 1.9 ppb |
| Hawthorne Wtp | 2,275 | 0 (not detected) |
| Archer Water System | 1,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| Waldo Wtp | 1,042 | 1.2 ppb |
| Gator Waterworks | 800 | 0 (not detected) |
| Arredondo Estates | 738 | 0 (not detected) |
| Micanopy Water System | 605 | 1.5 ppb |
Next steps for Gainesville, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Gainesville, 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 Santa Fe Hills Subdivision 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.