Ancient Oaks Rv Resort

What EPA’s and Florida’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves: 745 people
Connections: 700
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Okeechobee, FL
County: Okeechobee
Owner: Private

The ZIP code it serves

34974

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Florida’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, chromium (total), arsenic, fluoride and uranium: Florida’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 22, 2020 to Nov. 18, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

36.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 36.9 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 37.9 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 80.7 ppb, in 2015, and EPA recorded a violation in 2017.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

21.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 21.9 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 22.3 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 74.1 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.36ppm

Highest sample; found in 2 of 5

2024 average: 0.17 ppm

The highest sample, in 2022, was 0.36 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.17 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.48 ppm, in 2019.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.5 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 16.9 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Chromium (Hexavalent) Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Chromium Reduction”

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.

Arsenic
Fluoride
Lead
Uranium

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or rule	Type	Period	Measured	Status
TTHM	The running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, Average	April 1, 2017 to June 30, 2017	100 UG/L	Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 39 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, chromium (total), arsenic, fluoride and uranium results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Ancient Oaks Rv Resort’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.
Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.
What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.
Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Florida’s results run from Jan. 22, 2020 to Nov. 18, 2024.

Testing your own tap

Ancient Oaks Rv Resort’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Florida certifies.

The 3 labs Florida certifies closest to the area Ancient Oaks Rv Resort serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services-Big Lake Laboratory
Okeechobee, FL · about 25 miles
Certified for bacteria
(863) 763-3336
Eurofins Port St. Lucie
Port St. Lucie, FL · about 36 miles
Certified for bacteria
(772) 343-8006
FL Dept. of Health - Hendry County Environmental Laboratory
LaBelle, FL · about 40 miles
Certified for bacteria
(863) 302-6067

Florida Department of Health Bureau of Public Health Laboratories: Coliform and E. coli testing for private wells at the Jacksonville and Miami labs. Collection kits come from your county health department, and the sample has to reach the lab on ice the same day it is collected. $40 for private testing through the state lab. Well Water Testing, Florida Department of Health.

All 212 certified labs for Florida