The Meadows, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.2 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.
About The Meadows
The Meadows serves about 358 people through 143 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Citrus County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6094480; phone on file: 352-252-7650. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
The Meadows's lead record
That is down 6.8 ppb from 8 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Meadows is 8 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 8 ppb |
| 2019 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0.6 ppb |
How The Meadows 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 Meadows's 1.2 ppb sits at the 56th percentile in Florida and the 59th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
43 other systems share Citrus County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Meadows. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Citrus Co Utl/Charles A. Black | 29,218 | 1.4 ppb |
| Citrus Springs - Pine Ridge | 26,781 | 0.8 ppb |
| Sugarmill Woods S/D | 13,935 | 1.9 ppb |
| Inverness Water Dept | 7,194 | 1.2 ppb |
| Floral City Water Assn | 5,917 | 2.7 ppb |
| Homosassa Special Water District | 5,548 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ozello Water Association | 5,220 | 2.3 ppb |
| Crystal River, City Of | 4,528 | 2.3 ppb |
| Point O'Woods | 1,168 | 0.3 ppb |
| Cinnamon Ridge Utilities #2 | 638 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Lecanto, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lecanto, 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 Meadows 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.