Sweetwater Water System, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.1 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.
Sweetwater Water System at a glance
Sweetwater Water System serves about 65 people through 24 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Liberty County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1390651; phone on file: 850-878-4414. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (0.7 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Sweetwater Water System is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2018 | 2 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. Sweetwater Water System's 0.1 ppb sits at the 25th percentile in Florida and the 41st nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Liberty County
7 other systems share Liberty County; 7 of them have a higher latest lead result than Sweetwater Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol, City Of Water System | 2,688 | 1 ppb |
| Liberty Correctional Institution | 1,800 | 1 ppb |
| Hosford, Town Of Water System | 1,272 | 1 ppb |
| Lake Mystic Water System | 444 | 3 ppb |
| Estiffanulga Water System | 281 | 1 ppb |
| Rock Bluff Water System | 166 | 1.1 ppb |
| Sumatra Water System | 163 | 1.5 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Quincy, 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 Sweetwater 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. 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.