Tropic Breeze, MI
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.
Tropic Breeze at a glance
Tropic Breeze serves about 125 people through 116 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Pasco County, Michigan. EPA system ID: FL6510678; phone on file: 727-504-0786. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.2 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tropic Breeze is 2.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 2.3 ppb |
How Tropic Breeze compares
Of the 1,227 Michigan systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1 ppb; 31 are over 15 ppb right now and 109 have gone over at some point. Tropic Breeze's 1.2 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Michigan and the 58th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Pasco County
1 other system shares Pasco County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Tropic Breeze. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Jay Mhp | 420 | 4.8 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Royal Oak, MI 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 Tropic Breeze 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.