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Four Lakes

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
228 people
Connections
70
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Montverde, FL
County
Lake
Owner
Public and private
The ZIP code it serves

34756

The short answer

1 result is 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

Arsenic, nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), fluoride and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): Florida’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 11, 2020 to Oct. 17, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.5 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 1.0 ppb, in 2012.

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

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

5.8ppm

Highest sample; found in 18 of 18

2024 average: 4.3 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 5.8 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its six samples averaged 4.3 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 7.3 ppm, in 2013.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

9.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 9.0 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 26.3 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

2.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 2.7 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 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 1.9 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.092ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.092 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.13 ppm. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.1 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

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

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

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

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 2 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), fluoride and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Four Lakes’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 Feb. 11, 2020 to Oct. 17, 2024.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Lake County Water Resource Management Laboratory

    Tavares, FL · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals

    (352) 343-3776

  • EMSL Analytical, Inc. - Orlando

    Orlando, FL · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, asbestos

    (407) 599-5887

  • SGS North America, Inc. - Orlando

    Orlando, FL · about 15 miles

    Certified for PFAS

    (407) 425-6700

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 FL3354647. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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