Sunny Hills Utility Company, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.9 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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.
Sunny Hills Utility Company at a glance
Sunny Hills Utility Company serves about 1,458 people through 594 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1670647; phone on file: 727-919-1548. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (1.1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunny Hills Utility Company is 1.9 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
How Sunny Hills Utility Company 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. Sunny Hills Utility Company's 1.9 ppb sits at the 70th percentile in Florida and the 69th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
5 other systems share Washington County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunny Hills Utility Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chipley, City Of | 3,660 | 1.4 ppb |
| Northwest Florida Reception Center | 2,500 | 2.8 ppb |
| Vernon, City Of | 736 | 1 ppb |
| Caryville, Town Of | 423 | 4.9 ppb |
| Wausau, Town Of | 361 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for New Port Richey, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; New Port Richey, 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 Sunny Hills Utility Company 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.