Spring Gardens, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.8 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.
Spring Gardens at a glance
Spring Gardens serves about 363 people through 145 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Citrus County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6092199; phone on file: 352-527-7650. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.8 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Spring Gardens is 3.8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 0.7 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. Spring Gardens's 3.8 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Florida and the 86th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Citrus County
43 other systems share Citrus County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Spring Gardens. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Citrus Co Utl/Charles A. Black | 29,218 | 1.4 ppb |
| Citrus Springs - Pine Ridge | 26,781 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sugarmill Woods S/D | 13,935 | 1.9 ppb |
| Inverness Water Dept | 7,194 | 1.2 ppb |
| Floral City Water Assn | 5,917 | 2.7 ppb |
| Homosassa Special Water District | 5,548 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ozello Water Association | 5,220 | 2.3 ppb |
| Crystal River, City Of | 4,528 | 2.3 ppb |
| Point O'Woods | 1,168 | 0.3 ppb |
| Cinnamon Ridge Utilities #2 | 638 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lecanto, 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 Spring Gardens 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.