The Woods Utility Company, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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.
About The Woods Utility Company
The Woods Utility Company serves about 216 people through 90 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Sumter County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6600347; phone on file: 727-848-8292. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
That is down 1.2 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2024. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for The Woods Utility Company is 330 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2020 | 19.5 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 330 ppb over 15 |
| 2019 | 16 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 2.4 ppb |
How The Woods Utility Company 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 Woods Utility Company's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 13th percentile in Florida and the 16th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
23 other systems share Sumter County; 12 of them have a higher latest lead result than The Woods Utility Company. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| North Sumter Utility 3wps | 45,214 | 0 (not detected) |
| Wildwood, City Of (7 Wps) | 25,941 | 0 (not detected) |
| Little Sumter Utilities 3wps | 25,538 | 6.8 ppb |
| South Sumter Utilities | 24,278 | 0 (not detected) |
| Csu Wtp No. 1 | 19,699 | 1.5 ppb |
| Gibson Place Utilities | 9,770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lake Panasoffkee Water Assn 2wps | 4,642 | 1.3 ppb |
| Village Of Pine Ridge (Consec) | 3,914 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bushnell, City Of (2 Wps) | 3,047 | 0 (not detected) |
| Sumter Correctional Institution | 2,008 | 2.3 ppb |
Next steps for New Port Richey, FL
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 The Woods Utility Company whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 2000 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. More in what a past exceedance means today.