Community Water System · PWSID FL3354027

Century Estates Utilities Inc.

Serves 343 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLeesburg, Florida
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2003: 17 violations. 13 missed or late tests · 4 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
13Missed or late test1 open
4Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% of active water systems in Florida. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2003 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Notice or report: 120052010 · Notice or report: 120102015 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42019 · Missed or late test: 42020 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Missed or late test: 220202022 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42024 · Missed or late test: 42025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
76% missed or late test · 1324% notice or report · 4

Across Florida, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

33.5 ppb
6.3 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2024-10-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-06-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  6. 2020-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  8. 2019-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2019-09-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  10. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  11. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  12. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  13. 2016-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2015-08-11Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  15. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  16. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  17. 2003-06-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served343
Service connections98
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLeesburg
EPA ZIP on file34748

Areas served

  • Leesburg, Lake County

Reading this record

Century Estates Utilities Inc. is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 343 people in Leesburg, Florida. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.