Sjcu-Northeast Utilities Ws, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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
Sjcu-Northeast Utilities Ws serves about 14,790 people through 5,317 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 St. Johns County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2554475; phone on file: 904-209-2703. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sjcu-Northeast Utilities Ws is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.3 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Sjcu-Northeast Utilities Ws's 1 ppb sits at the 52nd percentile in Florida and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in St. Johns County
19 other systems share St. Johns County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sjcu-Northeast Utilities Ws. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sjcu-Cr214 Mainland Wtp | 66,953 | 0.6 ppb |
| Sjcu-Northwest Utilities Wtp | 48,040 | 0 (not detected) |
| St. Augustine Ws | 43,069 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sjcu-Ponte Vedra Ws | 15,565 | 0.9 ppb |
| Sjcu-Sawgrass Grid | 13,023 | 0.9 ppb |
| Jea: Ponte Vedra Grid | 5,395 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sjcu-North Beach Utilities | 4,200 | 0.6 ppb |
| Jea: Ponce De Leon Grid | 2,303 | 3.2 ppb |
| Sjcu-Hastings Wtp | 1,095 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jea: Palm Valley Ws | 965 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for St. Augustine, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; St. Augustine, 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 Sjcu-Northeast Utilities Ws 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.