South Shores Utility Association, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.4 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. 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.
South Shores Utility Association at a glance
South Shores Utility Association serves about 900 people through 300 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Brevard County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3054062; phone on file: 321-733-2001. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for South Shores Utility Association is 1 ppb across 7 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.4 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 ppb |
| 2016 | 1 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. South Shores Utility Association's 0.4 ppb sits at the 30th percentile in Florida and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Brevard County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than South Shores Utility Association. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cocoa, City Of | 294,039 | 2.2 ppb |
| Melbourne, City Of | 167,753 | 1.2 ppb |
| Palm Bay, City Of | 140,750 | 2.1 ppb |
| Titusville, City Of | 57,218 | 3 ppb |
| West Melbourne Wtr Sys(Consec) | 30,443 | 1.1 ppb |
| Barefoot Bay | 10,290 | 3.2 ppb |
| Mims Water Treatment / North Brevard Co. | 7,958 | 1.3 ppb |
| Patrick Space Force Base(Consec) | 7,500 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Brevard Water Co-Op | 1,537 | 0.4 ppb |
| San Sebastian Woods | 524 | 0.3 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Melbourne Beach, 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 South Shores Utility Association 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.