Suwannee Correctional Institute, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3.9 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. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
Who runs the water here
Suwannee Correctional Institute serves about 3,950 people through 13 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Suwannee County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2614268; phone on file: 386-362-2276. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2025 (3.4 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Suwannee Correctional Institute is 18 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.9 ppb |
| 2025 | 3.4 ppb |
| 2024 | 18 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 3.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.7 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. Suwannee Correctional Institute's 3.9 ppb sits at the 88th percentile in Florida and the 87th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Suwannee County
6 other systems share Suwannee County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Suwannee Correctional Institute. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Live Oak Wtp | 6,850 | 4.5 ppb |
| Advent Christian Village | 800 | 0.9 ppb |
| Branford Wtp | 800 | 0.9 ppb |
| Wellborn Water System | 500 | 4.6 ppb |
| Wayne Frier'S Mobile Home Park | 310 | 0.3 ppb |
| Florida Sheriff'S Boys Ranch | 100 | 2.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Live Oak, 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 Suwannee Correctional Institute 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.