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Big Cypress Park Headquarters

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
50 people
Connections
22
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Ochopee, FL
County
Collier
Owner
Federal government

The short answer

2 results are above EPA’s legal limit, and 2 more are above the health goal. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the legal limit. 4 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2012 to 2025.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, chromium (total), nitrate and uranium: Florida’s own results, samples taken from April 1, 2020 to Aug. 13, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the legal limit

276ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 276 ppb, in 2020, about 3.4 times EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 550 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. EPA recorded violations for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility in 2020 and 2021. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 63.5 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

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

Copper

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the action level

1.4ppm

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.4 ppm, above EPA’s action level of 1.3 ppm.

What handles it

Above the health goal2

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

7.4ppb

90th percentile, 2025

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 7.4 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.1 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.5 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits4

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

13ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024, one sample: 4.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 13 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 26 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 4.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 2.7 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.14ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024 average: 0.12 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.14 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.12 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.15 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.8 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.03ppm

Highest sample; found in 2 of 4

2024, one sample: 0.03 ppm

The highest sample, in 2024, was 0.03 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 0.03 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.34 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Uranium

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claims: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction, Copper Reduction, Lead Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), Copper, Lead, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: VOC Reduction; Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction, Copper Reduction, Lead Reduction, Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), Copper, Lead, Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021140 UG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2021 to March 31, 2021140 UG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 2020138 UG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2020138 UG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 5 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, chromium (total), nitrate and uranium results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Big Cypress Park Headquarters’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 April 1, 2020 to Aug. 13, 2024.

Testing your own tap

Big Cypress Park Headquarters’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.

No lab Florida certifies is within 75 miles of the area Big Cypress Park Headquarters serves on the state’s list. Some take samples by mail; the state’s page lists them all.

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.

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Sources

PWSID FL5110087. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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