Zolfo Springs Wtp, FL
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.5 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
Zolfo Springs Wtp serves about 2,062 people through 605 service connections, which makes it a small 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: FL6250332; phone on file: 863-735-0405. 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 down 6.5 ppb from 7 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Zolfo Springs Wtp is 7 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.5 ppb |
| 2021 | 7 ppb |
| 2018 | 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. Zolfo Springs Wtp's 0.5 ppb sits at the 33rd percentile in Florida and the 43rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Hardee County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Zolfo Springs Wtp. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Wauchula City Water Department | 5,000 | 1 ppb |
| Wauchula Hills Wtp (Hardee County) | 3,038 | 0 (not detected) |
| Bowling Green, City Of | 2,940 | 0.2 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Zolfo Springs, 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 Zolfo Springs 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.