Summit Cove (Ste.Adele South), FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.6 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). 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.
About Summit Cove (Ste.Adele South)
Summit Cove (Ste.Adele South) serves about 226 people through 84 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Brevard County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3054017; phone on file: 772-473-6090. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Summit Cove (Ste.Adele South)'s lead record
That is down 3.5 ppb from 4.1 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Summit Cove (Ste.Adele South) is 9.7 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 9.7 ppb |
How Summit Cove (Ste.Adele South) 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. Summit Cove (Ste.Adele South)'s 0.6 ppb sits at the 35th percentile in Florida and the 45th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
23 other systems share Brevard County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Summit Cove (Ste.Adele South). 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 |
| South Shores Utility Association | 900 | 0.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vero 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 Summit Cove (Ste.Adele South) 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.