The Harbor Waterfront Resort, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 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.
The Harbor Waterfront Resort at a glance
The Harbor Waterfront Resort serves about 211 people through 180 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Polk County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3530736; phone on file: 727-686-2700. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
The Harbor Waterfront Resort's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Harbor Waterfront Resort is 1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2021 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How The Harbor Waterfront Resort 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. The Harbor Waterfront Resort's 0.7 ppb sits at the 38th percentile in Florida and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
130 other systems share Polk County; 97 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Harbor Waterfront Resort. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lakeland, City Of | 193,297 | 0.6 ppb |
| Winter Haven Water Department | 87,537 | 7 ppb |
| Northeast | 60,557 | 1 ppb |
| Southwest/Polk County Utility | 39,209 | 1 ppb |
| Auburndale, City Of | 35,239 | 3.2 ppb |
| Haines City, City Of | 30,545 | 1 ppb |
| Northwest | 28,082 | 1.5 ppb |
| Bartow, City Of | 21,501 | 1 ppb |
| Lake Wales, City Of | 18,722 | 0.9 ppb |
| Central | 13,595 | 1.2 ppb |
Next steps for Bellair Bluffs, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Bellair Bluffs, 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 The Harbor Waterfront Resort 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.