Zellwood Water Users Inc. (2 Wps), FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1.6 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2024). 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
Zellwood Water Users Inc. (2 Wps) serves about 1,320 people through 377 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Orange County, Florida. EPA system ID: FL3481507; phone on file: 407-886-4640. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2021 (2.5 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Zellwood Water Users Inc. (2 Wps) is 2.5 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 2.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 0.9 ppb |
| 2020 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2018 | 2.1 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. Zellwood Water Users Inc. (2 Wps)'s 1.6 ppb sits at the 64th percentile in Florida and the 65th nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
40 other systems share Orange County; 17 of them have a higher latest lead result than Zellwood Water Users Inc. (2 Wps). If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Orlando Utilities Commission | 536,466 | 2 ppb |
| Ocud/Eastern Water System (2 Wp) | 293,374 | 0.9 ppb |
| Ocud/Western Regional Wtr Sys (5 Wps) | 206,742 | 0.8 ppb |
| Cftod Central (4 Wps) | 136,500 | 1.3 ppb |
| Winter Park, City Of (3 Wps) | 82,984 | 1.4 ppb |
| Ocud/Southern Water Sys (5 Wps) | 80,738 | 1.6 ppb |
| Winter Garden Water Dept (3 Wps) | 72,205 | 3.1 ppb |
| Apopka, City Of (5 Wtps) | 71,917 | 0 (not detected) |
| University Of Central Florida | 44,103 | 4.7 ppb |
| Ocoee, City Of (2 Wps) | 34,000 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Zellwood, FL
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Zellwood, 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 Zellwood Water Users Inc. (2 Wps) 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.