South Fork Mhp, FL
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 19.4 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. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
South Fork Mhp serves about 240 people through 102 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pasco County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6515179; phone on file: 727-842-6255. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 19.4 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Fork Mhp is 19.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 19.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2018 | 11.6 ppb over 10 |
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. South Fork Mhp's 19.4 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in Florida and the 99th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
63 other systems share Pasco County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Fork Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pcud-Pasco County Regional Pws | 214,403 | 1 ppb |
| New Port Richey Water Dept | 33,000 | 2 ppb |
| Seven Springs | 32,834 | 1.2 ppb |
| Zephyrhills City Of | 29,117 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dade City Water Dept | 15,561 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aloha Gardens Utilities | 8,136 | 1.6 ppb |
| Port Richey Water Dept-City Of | 7,732 | 1.3 ppb |
| Hudson Water Works | 7,169 | 5 ppb |
| Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East) | 7,021 | 0 (not detected) |
| Orangewood Water System | 6,464 | 1.4 ppb |
Next steps for New Port Richey, FL
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask South Fork Mhp 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.