Southern Oaks Mhp, FL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
About Southern Oaks Mhp
Southern Oaks Mhp serves about 25 people through 31 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Polk County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6535063; phone on file: 863-858-2262. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Southern Oaks Mhp's lead record
That is down 2 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Southern Oaks Mhp is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 2 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Southern Oaks Mhp 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. Southern Oaks Mhp's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 0th percentile in Florida and the 0th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
130 other systems share Polk County; 117 of them have a higher latest lead result than Southern Oaks Mhp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lakeland, City Of | 193,297 | 0.6 ppb |
| Winter Haven Water Department | 87,537 | 7 ppb |
| Northeast | 60,557 | 1 ppb |
| Southwest/Polk County Utility | 39,209 | 1 ppb |
| Auburndale, City Of | 35,239 | 3.2 ppb |
| Haines City, City Of | 30,545 | 1 ppb |
| Northwest | 28,082 | 1.5 ppb |
| Bartow, City Of | 21,501 | 1 ppb |
| Lake Wales, City Of | 18,722 | 0.9 ppb |
| Central | 13,595 | 1.2 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Southern Oaks Mhp's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Southern Oaks 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.