Woodland Park, FL

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.5 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2021). 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.

Woodland Park at a glance

Woodland Park serves about 66 people through 67 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Fond Du Lac County, Florida. EPA system ID: WI4200798. Ask the utility on your bill for your address in their service line inventory.

Lead results over time

Against the period ending 2018 (0.55 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Woodland Park is 1.5 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 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. Woodland Park's 1.5 ppb sits at the 62nd percentile in Florida and the 63rd nationally (higher means more lead).

What to do in your house

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Miami, 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 Woodland Park 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.