Wauchula City Water Department, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 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.
Wauchula City Water Department at a glance
Wauchula City Water Department serves about 5,000 people through 2,421 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Hardee County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL6250329; phone on file: 863-773-3535. 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 (1.2 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wauchula City Water Department is 2 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2017 | 2 ppb |
How Wauchula City Water Department 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. Wauchula City Water Department's 1 ppb sits at the 51st percentile in Florida and the 55th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
8 other systems share Hardee County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wauchula City Water Department. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wauchula Hills Wtp (Hardee County) | 3,038 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bowling Green, City Of | 2,940 | 0.2 ppb |
| Zolfo Springs Wtp | 2,062 | 0.5 ppb |
| Hardee Correctional Institute | 1,900 | 2.5 ppb |
| Brookside Bluff Rv Park | 300 | 1 ppb |
| Peace River Heights | 250 | 0 (not detected) |
| Charlie Creek-The Village Of | 142 | 0.7 ppb |
| Lakeside Neurologic (Fka F.I.N.R.) | 60 | 1.4 ppb |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wauchula, 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 Wauchula City Water Department 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.