Sunrise Sawgrass, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.1 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.
Who runs the water here
Sunrise Sawgrass serves about 72,400 people through 36,222 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Broward County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4061408; phone on file: 954-888-6035. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Sunrise Sawgrass's lead record
That is up 1.5 ppb from 1.6 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunrise Sawgrass is 3.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 3.4 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. Sunrise Sawgrass's 3.1 ppb sits at the 85th percentile in Florida and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
36 other systems share Broward County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunrise Sawgrass. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pembroke Pines, City Of | 187,459 | 0.6 ppb |
| Fort Lauderdale, City Of | 185,163 | 4.9 ppb |
| Hollywood, City Of | 147,566 | 3.5 ppb |
| Miramar (East ; West) Plants | 137,107 | 1.2 ppb |
| City Of Pompano | 99,400 | 1.1 ppb |
| Plantation, East ; Central | 85,496 | 1 ppb |
| Sunrise Springtree | 79,550 | 1.3 ppb |
| Bcwws 1a | 75,305 | 1.6 ppb |
| Coral Springs, City Of | 65,000 | 1.1 ppb |
| Tamarac (West), City Of | 63,793 | 1.9 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Sunrise, 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 Sunrise Sawgrass 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.