Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East), FL
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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.
Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East) at a glance
Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East) serves about 7,021 people through 1,322 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Pasco County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6512064; phone on file: 407-629-6900. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East) is 1.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 1.4 ppb |
How Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East) compares
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. Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East)'s reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 23rd percentile in Florida and the 36th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Pasco County
63 other systems share Pasco County; 37 of them have a higher latest lead result than Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Pcud-Pasco County Regional Pws | 214,403 | 1 ppb |
| New Port Richey Water Dept | 33,000 | 2 ppb |
| Seven Springs | 32,834 | 1.2 ppb |
| Zephyrhills City Of | 29,117 | 0 (not detected) |
| Dade City Water Dept | 15,561 | 0 (not detected) |
| Aloha Gardens Utilities | 8,136 | 1.6 ppb |
| Port Richey Water Dept-City Of | 7,732 | 1.3 ppb |
| Hudson Water Works | 7,169 | 5 ppb |
| Orangewood Water System | 6,464 | 1.4 ppb |
| Summertree | 2,850 | 1 ppb |
Your move
Look up your address in Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East)'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 Turtle Lakes (Mad Hatter East) 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.