Tropical Harbor Estates, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
About Tropical Harbor Estates
Tropical Harbor Estates serves about 650 people through 438 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Highlands County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6280296; phone on file: 863-465-4112. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0.6 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Tropical Harbor Estates is 1 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.6 ppb |
| 2020 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 1 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. Tropical Harbor Estates's 1 ppb sits at the 48th percentile in Florida and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
26 other systems share Highlands County; 15 of them have a higher latest lead result than Tropical Harbor Estates. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sebring Water ; Sewer System | 46,295 | 0.9 ppb |
| Avon Park, City Of | 19,361 | 9.6 ppb |
| Sun N Lakes Of Sebring Water | 7,710 | 0.7 ppb |
| Spring Lake Improvement Distirct | 4,098 | 2.3 ppb |
| Placid Lakes Utilities, Inc | 3,307 | 1.4 ppb |
| Lake Placid, Town Of | 2,671 | 3.1 ppb |
| Tomoka Heights | 2,656 | 0.6 ppb |
| Lake Josephine Heights | 1,325 | 1 ppb |
| Highway Park Wtp | 903 | 1 ppb |
| Lp Water Works Inc. (The Woodlands) | 800 | 2.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Lake Placid, 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 Tropical Harbor Estates 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.