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Baker Correctional Institution

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
1,500 people
Connections
62
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Sanderson, FL
County
Baker
Owner
State government
The ZIP code it serves

32087

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. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 2.3 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 31, 1999. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, chromium (total), arsenic and nitrate: Florida’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 23, 2020 to Oct. 30, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits4

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

37ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 17 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 37 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 56.7 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 17 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 53.4 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

47.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 20.8 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 47.7 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 78.1 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its three samples averaged 20.8 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 60.4 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.58ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.58 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.47 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.0 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.9 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Lead
  • Nitrate

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 7 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, chromium (total), arsenic and nitrate results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Baker Correctional Institution’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. 23, 2020 to Oct. 30, 2024.

Testing your own tap

Baker Correctional Institution’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 Baker Correctional Institution serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • FL Dept. of Health - Columbia County Health Department

    Lake City, FL · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (386) 758-1066

  • JEA Laboratory Services

    Jacksonville, FL · about 38 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS

    (904) 665-4517

  • BCS Laboratories, Inc. - Gainesville

    Gainesville, FL · about 42 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (352) 377-9272

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

Sources

PWSID FL2021356. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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