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Cedar Lake Estates

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
85 people
Connections
35
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Crystal River, FL
County
Citrus
Owner
Private

The short answer

2 results are above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): Florida’s own results, samples taken from Oct. 26, 2020 to Aug. 15, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Arsenic, uranium, chromium (total) and fluoride: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from July 30, 2012 to Aug. 13, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal2

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

3.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

2018, one sample: 2.9 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.1 ppb, in 2015: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2018, the latest year on file, its one sample was 2.9 ppb.

What handles it

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

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2015

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.6 ppb, in 2015: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits3

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

49.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 49.8 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 3.1 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

4.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

2018: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 4.3 ppb, in 2015, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. In 2018, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.14ppm

Highest yearly average, 2012 to 2018

2018: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.14 ppm, in 2012, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2018, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples.

What handles it

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Lead
  • Nitrate
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

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

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

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

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Uranium

    For: Arsenic, Uranium

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

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 32 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Arsenic, uranium, chromium (total) and fluoride come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Cedar Lake Estates’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and 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 Oct. 26, 2020 to Aug. 15, 2024; EPA’s compliance samples are from July 30, 2012 to Aug. 13, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Cedar Lake Estates’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 Cedar Lake Estates 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.

All 212 certified labs for Florida

Sources

PWSID FL6092326. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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