Sunset Harbor Water System, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.5 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.
Who runs the water here
Sunset Harbor Water System serves about 25 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Marion County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3425111; phone on file: 352-288-5856. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 2.5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sunset Harbor Water System is 2.5 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.7 ppb |
How Sunset Harbor Water System 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. Sunset Harbor Water System's 2.5 ppb sits at the 77th percentile in Florida and the 77th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Marion County
92 other systems share Marion County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sunset Harbor Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ocala, City Of (2 Wtps) | 66,449 | 0.7 ppb |
| West Side Consolidated | 54,542 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Side Consolidated | 40,251 | 0 (not detected) |
| On Top Of The World | 22,383 | 0 (not detected) |
| Belleview, City Of (3 Wps) | 9,358 | 4.7 ppb |
| Spruce Creek North | 7,467 | 4.9 ppb |
| Ashley Farms | 4,784 | 1.8 ppb |
| Lowell Correctional Institution Annex | 2,974 | 1.4 ppb |
| Marion Correctional Institution | 2,700 | 0.6 ppb |
| Rolling Greens Village | 2,498 | 1.2 ppb |
Next steps for Summerfield, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Summerfield, 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 Sunset Harbor Water System 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.