Vernon, City Of, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2025-2025). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Vernon, City Of
Vernon, City Of serves about 736 people through 400 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Washington County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL1670710; phone on file: 850-535-2444. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Vernon, City Of's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Vernon, City Of is 22 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2021 | 22 ppb over 15 |
| 2018 | 2 ppb |
How Vernon, City Of 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. Vernon, City Of's 1 ppb sits at the 49th percentile in Florida and the 53rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
5 other systems share Washington County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Vernon, City Of. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Chipley, City Of | 3,660 | 1.4 ppb |
| Northwest Florida Reception Center | 2,500 | 2.8 ppb |
| Sunny Hills Utility Company | 1,458 | 1.9 ppb |
| Caryville, Town Of | 423 | 4.9 ppb |
| Wausau, Town Of | 361 | 1 ppb |
Next steps for Vernon, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Vernon, 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 Vernon, 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.