Drinking water quality · 2024
· Verified
· PWSID FL3480962
What's in Orlando, FL tap water
Every one of the 10 core regulated contaminants reported for Orlando, FL came in below its federal limit.
- !2 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- !10 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 17 never appear in this report
- ✓Nothing over a federal limit
- ✓No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −0 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −8 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −0 open health-based violations
- −0 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −2 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −14 core regulated contaminants never reported (10/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →What to worry about
- Bromate98% of the federal limit0–9.8 ug/L · limit 10 ug/L
Classified as a probable human carcinogen; the EPA sets a strict maximum contaminant level.
higher than 95% of U.S. systems
- TTHM92% of the federal limit18.87–73.85 ug/L · limit 80 ug/L
Long-term exposure above the federal limit is linked to liver, kidney, and central-nervous-system effects and increased cancer risk.
higher than 90% of U.S. systems
+11 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| HAA5 | 9.66–45.07 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Chlorine | 0.2–2.1 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Copper | 0.5 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Combined Radium | 1.5 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Gross Alpha | 3.5 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| Fluoride | 0.89 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Lead | 2 ug/L | 15 ug/L |
| Barium | 0.036 mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Nitrate | 0.09 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Nickel | 2 ug/L | — |
| Sodium | 12.6 mg/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
17 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Orlando, FL's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record
Where your water comes from · EPA SDWIS
Orlando, FL's drinking water comes from ground water, drawn from 56 sources.
Source
- WELL · 13
- WELL#1 · 3
- WELL #4 (AKA #26) 5 MGD
- WELL#3 16 1045'/1406'
- + 38 more
Treatment
- OUC/CONWAY PLANT 26.75 MGD
- OUC/HIGHLAND TREATMENT PLANT
- OUC/KIRKMAN PLANT 15 MGD
- + 10 more
Distribution
Compliance history
Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.
- Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based1 violation on record · most recent Jul 2019resolved
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗