Town Of Orange Park, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). 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 Orange Park serves about 8,668 people through 2,982 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 groundwater, in Clay County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2101182; phone on file: 904-278-3011. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Town Of Orange Park's lead record
Against the period ending 2020 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Town Of Orange Park is 1.2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.2 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 Orange Park's 0.7 ppb sits at the 39th percentile in Florida and the 47th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
10 other systems share Clay County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Town Of Orange Park. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orange Park Grid | 127,904 | 0.8 ppb |
| Lake Asbury Grid | 27,001 | 0.7 ppb |
| City Of Green Cove Springs Wtp | 7,000 | 0.5 ppb |
| Keystone Postmaster Grid | 5,092 | 2.3 ppb |
| Camp Blanding Joint Training Center | 900 | 1.4 ppb |
| Town Of Penney Farms Wtp | 489 | 5.1 ppb |
| Penney Retirement Community | 450 | 9.8 ppb |
| Pier Station Wtp | 270 | 0 (not detected) |
| Kingsley Cove | 196 | 1.1 ppb |
| Lake Geneva Mhp | 95 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Orange Park, 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 Orange Park 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.