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Indian River 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
2,365 people
Connections
946
Water source
Groundwater bought from another system
Based in
Fort Pierce, FL
County
St. Lucie
Owner
Local government
The 2 ZIP codes it serves

34947, 34982

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 2012 to 2024.

Haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): Florida’s own results, samples taken from Jan. 23, 2020 to Aug. 23, 2022, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

10ppb

90th percentile, 2024

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

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

52.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2022

2022 average: 16.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 52.1 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 58.6 ppb. In 2022, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 16.4 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 56.8 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

35.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2022

2022 average: 27.2 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 35.9 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 45.2 ppb. In 2022, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 27.2 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 49 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

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

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.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 23 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Indian River Estates’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 Jan. 23, 2020 to Aug. 23, 2022.

Testing your own tap

Indian River 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.

The 3 labs Florida certifies closest to the area Indian River Estates serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Eurofins Port St. Lucie

    Port St. Lucie, FL · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (772) 343-8006

  • FL Dept. of Health - Indian River County Health Department

    Vero Beach, FL · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (772) 794-7400

  • Jupiter Environmental Laboratories, Inc.

    Jupiter, FL · about 35 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper, metals, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (561) 575-0030

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 FL4565204. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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