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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
2,550 people
Connections
1,134
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Cross City, FL
County
Dixie
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

32628

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2002 to 2024.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and nitrate: Florida’s own results, samples taken from March 16, 2020 to Sept. 24, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from Feb. 27, 2018 to Feb. 27, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

2.5ppb

90th percentile, 2024

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 2.5 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

Below EPA’s limits2

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

74.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 46.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 74.4 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 92.9 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 46.4 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 177 ppb, in 2012, and EPA recorded violations in 2012 and 2013.

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

48.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 40.1 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 48.2 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 68 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 40.1 ppb. EPA recorded no violation for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 142 ppb, in 2013, and EPA recorded violations in 2012 and 2013.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

5 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Fluoride
  • Nitrate
  • 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.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 10 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), arsenic, chromium (total), fluoride and nitrate results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Uranium comes from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Cross City WTP’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 March 16, 2020 to Sept. 24, 2024; EPA’s compliance samples are from Feb. 27, 2018 to Feb. 27, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Cross City WTP’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 Cross City WTP serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Gainesville

    Gainesville, FL · about 48 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (352) 377-2349

  • BCS Laboratories, Inc. - Gainesville

    Gainesville, FL · about 56 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (352) 377-9272

  • FL Dept. of Health - Columbia County Health Department

    Lake City, FL · about 57 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (386) 758-1066

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 FL2150243. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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