Town Of Fort Myers Beach (Beach Water), FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.2 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.
Who runs the water here
Town Of Fort Myers Beach (Beach Water) serves about 6,499 people through 3,095 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Lee County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL5364145; phone on file: 239-765-0202. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 3.9 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Fort Myers Beach (Beach Water) is 5.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.8 ppb |
Where this result ranks
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. Town Of Fort Myers Beach (Beach Water)'s 5.2 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in Florida and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
19 other systems share Lee County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Fort Myers Beach (Beach Water). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Lee County Utilities | 282,556 | 1.1 ppb |
| Cape Coral, City Of | 172,693 | 1.4 ppb |
| City Of Fort Myers Water Treatment Plant | 92,219 | 0.4 ppb |
| Bonita Springs Utilities | 76,033 | 2.1 ppb |
| Florida Governmental Utility Authority | 32,296 | 5.3 ppb |
| Greater Pine Island Water Association | 15,725 | 0.4 ppb |
| Island Water Association | 14,784 | 0.7 ppb |
| Gateway Services District | 14,553 | 1.9 ppb |
| Citrus Park Rv Resort (Bonita Terra) | 3,282 | 2.8 ppb |
| Lake Fairways Mobile Home Park | 2,000 | 0.5 ppb |
Next steps for Fort Myers Beach, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Fort Myers Beach, 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 Town Of Fort Myers Beach (Beach Water) 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.