Wellborn Water System, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 4.6 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. 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.
About Wellborn Water System
Wellborn Water System serves about 500 people through 192 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is under mixed public and private ownership and draws groundwater, in Suwannee County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL2611246; phone on file: 386-963-3641. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 2.6 ppb from 2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Wellborn Water System is 5.2 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.6 ppb |
| 2022 | 2 ppb |
| 2019 | 5.2 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.2 ppb |
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. Wellborn Water System's 4.6 ppb sits at the 90th percentile in Florida and the 90th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Suwannee County
6 other systems share Suwannee County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Wellborn Water System. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Live Oak Wtp | 6,850 | 4.5 ppb |
| Suwannee Correctional Institute | 3,950 | 3.9 ppb |
| Advent Christian Village | 800 | 0.9 ppb |
| Branford Wtp | 800 | 0.9 ppb |
| Wayne Frier'S Mobile Home Park | 310 | 0.3 ppb |
| Florida Sheriff'S Boys Ranch | 100 | 2.5 ppb |
Next steps for Wellborn, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Wellborn, 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 Wellborn Water System 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.