Venice Water Dept City Of, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.3 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.
Venice Water Dept City Of at a glance
Venice Water Dept City Of serves about 31,358 people through 12,543 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Sarasota County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6581901; phone on file: 941-480-3333. 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 2020 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Venice Water Dept City Of is 0.3 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2020 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Venice Water Dept City Of's 0.3 ppb sits at the 28th percentile in Florida and the 42nd nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
12 other systems share Sarasota County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Venice Water Dept City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Sarasota Co Special Util Dist | 272,267 | 0.5 ppb |
| North Port Utilities | 61,163 | 3.4 ppb |
| Sarasota-City Of | 55,364 | 1 ppb |
| Englewood Water Dist | 38,265 | 6.1 ppb |
| Pluris-South Gate Utilities | 15,897 | 1 ppb |
| Camelot Lakes | 1,700 | 0.6 ppb |
| Kings Gate Club | 838 | 0.4 ppb |
| Lake Tippecanoe | 361 | 3.5 ppb |
| Windward Isle Mhp Water System | 321 | 0.3 ppb |
| Venice Ranch Mobile Home Estates | 295 | 1 ppb |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Venice, 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 Venice Water Dept City Of 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. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.