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Ocala Garden Apartments

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
65 people
Connections
26
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Ocala, FL
County
Marion
Owner
Public and private
The ZIP code it serves

34471

The short answer

2 results are 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, uranium, nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride and chromium (total): Florida’s own results, samples taken from Dec. 22, 2020 to Oct. 29, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal2

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024 average: 0.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.6 ppb, in 2021: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.5 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

1.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024 average: 0.92 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.2 ppb, in 2021: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.92 ppb.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits5

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.7ppm

Highest sample; found in 6 of 6

2024 average: 1.5 ppm

The highest sample, in 2024, was 1.7 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its three samples averaged 1.5 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 1.5 ppm, in 2014.

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

5.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.8 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 4.5 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

6.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 6.0 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 12.7 ppb, in 2015.

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

0.14ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.14 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 0.17 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.65ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.65 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. Its highest single sample was 1.3 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.2 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

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

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

    Claims: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction, Uranium

    For: Arsenic, Uranium

    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 5 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, uranium, nitrate, haloacetic acids (HAA5), total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride and chromium (total) results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Ocala Garden Apartments’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 Dec. 22, 2020 to Oct. 29, 2024.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Aqua Pure Water & Sewage Service, LLC

    Ocala, FL · about 4 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (352) 355-2383

  • Marion County Water Test Lab., LLC

    Ocala, FL · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (352) 694-6042

  • Central Florida Water Testing LLC DBA Plant Technicians

    Leesburg, FL · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (352) 787-2944

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 FL3421554. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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