Summertree, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Summertree at a glance
Summertree serves about 2,850 people through 1,140 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws surface water, in Pasco County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6511423; phone on file: 407-948-9839. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2022 (1.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Summertree is 2.4 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Summertree's 1 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Florida and the 54th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
63 other systems share Pasco County; 27 of them have a higher latest lead result than Summertree. 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 |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Altamonte Springs, 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 Summertree whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1400 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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.