Villa Margaret, FL
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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.
Villa Margaret at a glance
Villa Margaret serves about 132 people through 66 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Okeechobee County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4471736; phone on file: 863-763-0700. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Villa Margaret's lead record
Against the period ending 2025 (0.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Villa Margaret is 45.3 ppb across 12 monitoring periods, 3 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2025 | 0.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0.3 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2022 | 45.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 20.4 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 1 ppb |
| 2018 | 26.3 ppb over 15 |
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. Villa Margaret's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 10th percentile in Florida and the 12th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Okeechobee County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Villa Margaret. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Okeechobee Utility Authority | 20,000 | 5.4 ppb |
| Okeechobee Correctional Inst | 1,700 | 0.6 ppb |
| Ancient Oaks Rv Resort | 745 | 0 (not detected) |
| Blue Cypress Golf ; Rv Park | 418 | 0 (not detected) |
| Mcarthur/Line 7/Sw | 144 | 1.5 ppb |
| Oak Park | 100 | 5.4 ppb |
| Mcarthur/Line 1/Ne | 56 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oaks At Okeechobee | 30 | - |
Next steps for Okeechobee, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Okeechobee, 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 Villa Margaret 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.