Town Of Fort White Wtp, FL
Lead reported as not detected
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 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Town Of Fort White Wtp at a glance
Town Of Fort White Wtp serves about 750 people through 275 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Columbia County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2124399; phone on file: 904-333-3183. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2024 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Fort White Wtp is 1.4 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.4 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. Town Of Fort White Wtp's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 19th percentile in Florida and the 25th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
15 other systems share Columbia County; 9 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Fort White Wtp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Lake City (Price Creek Wtp) | 20,488 | 2.6 ppb |
| Woodgate Village | 343 | 3 ppb |
| Sundial Apartments | 265 | 0.4 ppb |
| Verndale Apartments | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Brandon-Brent Heights Wtp | 218 | 2.1 ppb |
| College Manor Utilities | 150 | 1.7 ppb |
| Maple Lane Associates | 147 | 1 ppb |
| Quail Heights Country Club | 103 | 9.8 ppb |
| Cannon Creek Mhp | 100 | 0 (not detected) |
| Suwannee Valley Estates | 75 | 2.6 ppb |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Town Of Fort White Wtp's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. 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 White Wtp 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.