Seacoast Utilities Authority, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 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. 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 Seacoast Utilities Authority
Seacoast Utilities Authority serves about 97,552 people through 36,807 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Palm Beach County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4501124; phone on file: 561-627-2900. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Seacoast Utilities Authority's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Seacoast Utilities Authority is 9 ppb across 15 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2024 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2023 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2022 | 2.2 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 3.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.6 ppb |
| 2017 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 9 ppb |
| 2016 | 5.5 ppb |
How Seacoast Utilities Authority 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. Seacoast Utilities Authority's 1.6 ppb sits at the 65th percentile in Florida and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
31 other systems share Palm Beach County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Seacoast Utilities Authority. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach County Water Utilities | 671,114 | 1.4 ppb |
| West Palm Beach Wtp | 132,000 | 3 ppb |
| Boca Raton Wtp | 130,000 | 0.6 ppb |
| Boynton Beach Pws | 112,000 | 4.4 ppb |
| Jupiter Public Water System,Town Of | 94,929 | 0.9 ppb |
| Delray Beach Public Water System | 69,754 | 3.7 ppb |
| Wellington Wtp | 56,475 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lake Worth Beach Utilities | 48,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Riviera Beach Utility District, City Of | 46,762 | 2.4 ppb |
| Palm Springs, Village Of | 32,467 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Palm Beach Gardens, 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 Seacoast Utilities Authority 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.