Suwannee Valley Estates, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.6 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. 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.
About Suwannee Valley Estates
Suwannee Valley Estates serves about 75 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Columbia County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2121366; phone on file: 863-904-5574. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Suwannee Valley Estates's lead record
Against the period ending 2024 (2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Suwannee Valley Estates is 52.8 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.6 ppb |
| 2024 | 2 ppb |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 6 ppb |
| 2020 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2017 | 52.8 ppb over 15 |
How Suwannee Valley Estates 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. Suwannee Valley Estates's 2.6 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in Florida and the 78th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Columbia County
15 other systems share Columbia County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Suwannee Valley Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Lake City (Price Creek Wtp) | 20,488 | 2.6 ppb |
| Town Of Fort White Wtp | 750 | 0 (not detected) |
| Woodgate Village | 343 | 3 ppb |
| Sundial Apartments | 265 | 0.4 ppb |
| Verndale Apartments | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp | 218 | 2.1 ppb |
| College Manor Utilities | 150 | 1.7 ppb |
| Maple Lane Associates | 147 | 1 ppb |
| Quail Heights Country Club | 103 | 9.8 ppb |
| Cannon Creek Mhp | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
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 Suwannee Valley Estates 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.