Sebring Water ; Sewer System, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.9 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.
Who runs the water here
Sebring Water ; Sewer System serves about 46,295 people through 19,869 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 Highlands County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6280250; phone on file: 863-471-5113. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Sebring Water ; Sewer System's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sebring Water ; Sewer System is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 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. Sebring Water ; Sewer System's 0.9 ppb sits at the 44th percentile in Florida and the 49th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Highlands County
26 other systems share Highlands County; 22 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sebring Water ; Sewer System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Avon Park, City Of | 19,361 | 9.6 ppb |
| Sun N Lakes Of Sebring Water | 7,710 | 0.7 ppb |
| Spring Lake Improvement Distirct | 4,098 | 2.3 ppb |
| Placid Lakes Utilities, Inc | 3,307 | 1.4 ppb |
| Lake Placid, Town Of | 2,671 | 3.1 ppb |
| Tomoka Heights | 2,656 | 0.6 ppb |
| Lake Josephine Heights | 1,325 | 1 ppb |
| Highway Park Wtp | 903 | 1 ppb |
| Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands) | 800 | 2.4 ppb |
| Tropical Harbor Estates | 650 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Sebring, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sebring, 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 Sebring Water ; Sewer System 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.