Green Acres

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: 45 people
Connections: 17
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Lithia, FL
County: Hillsborough
Owner: Private

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

Fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), nitrate and uranium: Florida’s own results, samples taken from Feb. 19, 2020 to Sept. 23, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits3

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.5ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.5 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 0.61 ppm, in 2015.

What handles it

NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Fluoride Reduction”
NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Fluoride”

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

6.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 6.1 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 4.3 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

5.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024, one sample: 5.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.6 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 5.2 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 7.9 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

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

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

Arsenic
Chromium (total)
Lead
Nitrate
Uranium

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. Fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), arsenic, chromium (total), nitrate and uranium results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Green Acres’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. 19, 2020 to Sept. 23, 2024.

Testing your own tap

Green Acres’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 Green Acres 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