Northeast Florida State Hospital

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: 1,800 people
Connections: 62
Water source: Groundwater
Based in: Macclenny, FL
County: Baker
Owner: State government

The ZIP code it serves

32063

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

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and nitrate: Florida’s own results, samples taken from June 30, 2020 to Sept. 9, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Uranium: EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from May 23, 2018 to May 23, 2018. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Below EPA’s limits3

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

49.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024, one sample: 38.9 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 49.9 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 38.9 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 21.8 ppb, in 2014.

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

25.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 25.3 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 15.5 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.92ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.92 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 0.84 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

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

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. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) 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. Northeast Florida State Hospital’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 June 30, 2020 to Sept. 9, 2024; EPA’s compliance samples are from May 23, 2018 to May 23, 2018.

Testing your own tap

Northeast Florida State Hospital’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 Northeast Florida State Hospital serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

JEA Laboratory Services
Jacksonville, FL · about 29 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS
(904) 665-4517
FL Dept. of Health - Columbia County Health Department
Lake City, FL · about 31 miles
Certified for bacteria
(386) 758-1066
Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Inc.
Jacksonville, FL · about 32 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS
(904) 363-9350

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