West Palm Beach Wtp, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 3 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.
Who runs the water here
West Palm Beach Wtp serves about 132,000 people through 33,612 service connections, which makes it a very large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Palm Beach County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL4501559; phone on file: 772-475-7465. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 1.7 ppb from 1.3 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for West Palm Beach Wtp is 12 ppb across 14 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.4 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.8 ppb |
| 2019 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2019 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2018 | 2.8 ppb |
| 2018 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.7 ppb |
| 2017 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2016 | 2.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 2 ppb |
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. West Palm Beach Wtp's 3 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in Florida and the 83rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
31 other systems share Palm Beach County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than West Palm Beach Wtp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach County Water Utilities | 671,114 | 1.4 ppb |
| Boca Raton Wtp | 130,000 | 0.6 ppb |
| Boynton Beach Pws | 112,000 | 4.4 ppb |
| Seacoast Utilities Authority | 97,552 | 1.6 ppb |
| Jupiter Public Water System,Town Of | 94,929 | 0.9 ppb |
| Delray Beach Public Water System | 69,754 | 3.7 ppb |
| Wellington Wtp | 56,475 | 1.7 ppb |
| Lake Worth Beach Utilities | 48,000 | 1.3 ppb |
| Riviera Beach Utility District, City Of | 46,762 | 2.4 ppb |
| Palm Springs, Village Of | 32,467 | 0.9 ppb |
Next steps for West Palm Beach, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; West Palm Beach, 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 West Palm Beach Wtp 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.