St. James Community, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.8 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.
St. James Community at a glance
St. James Community serves about 79 people through 32 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 Gadsden County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1204029; phone on file: 850-878-4414. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
St. James Community's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for St. James Community is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 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. St. James Community's 0.8 ppb sits at the 40th percentile in Florida and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
14 other systems share Gadsden County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than St. James Community. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Gadsden Co Regional W/S | 12,322 | 2 ppb |
| Quincy, City Of W/S | 10,298 | 1.3 ppb |
| Havana, Town Of Water System | 3,860 | 1 ppb |
| Gretna, City Of | 3,508 | 2 ppb |
| Florida State Hospital | 3,200 | 11 ppb |
| Chattahoochee, City Of | 2,959 | 4.1 ppb |
| Greensboro, Town Of Water Sys. | 794 | 1.5 ppb |
| Tobacco Road | 146 | 0.2 ppb |
| Rosedale Water Association | 143 | 1.8 ppb |
| Jamieson Water System | 129 | 0.9 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Quincy, 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 St. James Community 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.