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Oakland Shores

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
788 people
Connections
225
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Altamonte Springs, FL
County
Seminole
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

32751

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

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 1.7 ppm, for the period ending June 30, 1997. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium: Florida’s own results, samples taken from March 27, 2020 to Sept. 17, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits4

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

43.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 11.1 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 43.5 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 47.4 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 11.1 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 54.7 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

49.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 21.1 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 49.3 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 52.6 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 21.1 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 61.9 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.11ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.11 ppm, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.072ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 4

2024, one sample: 0.072 ppm

The highest sample, in 2024, was 0.072 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its one sample was 0.072 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.09 ppm, in 2013.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Uranium

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Oakland Shores’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 March 27, 2020 to Sept. 17, 2024.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Orlando

    Altamonte Springs, FL · about 2 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (407) 937-1594

  • Eurofins Orlando

    Altamonte Springs, FL · about 2 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (407) 339-5984

  • DOH-EPH Orange Water Testing Laboratory

    Orlando, FL · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (407) 723-5262

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 FL3590912. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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