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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
95 people
Connections
66
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Satsuma, FL
County
Putnam
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

32189

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the legal limit. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, fluoride, chromium (total), arsenic and uranium: Florida’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 18, 2020 to Aug. 13, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the legal limit1

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the legal limit

86.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 86.5 ppb, in 2024, above EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. EPA recorded a violation for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility in 2026. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 72.1 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

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

Below EPA’s limits4

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

21.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024, one sample: 17.5 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 21.2 ppb, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 17.5 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 36.1 ppb, in 2018.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.6ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 4

2024: not found

The highest sample, in 2021, was 0.6 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.13 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.23ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.23 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 0.16 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.9ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.9 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 4.4 ppb, in 2015.

What handles it

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Lead
  • Uranium

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: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

    Other certifiers’ wording: VOC Reduction

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction

    For: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

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.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2026 to March 31, 202681.5 UG/LArchived
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 6 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), nitrate, fluoride, chromium (total), arsenic and uranium results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. River Villas’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 Aug. 18, 2020 to Aug. 13, 2024.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Certified Labs of Florida

    Melrose, FL · about 24 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (352) 475-2248

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Ormond Beach FL

    Ormond Beach, FL · about 35 miles

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

    (386) 672-5668

  • Aqua Pure Water & Sewage Service, LLC

    Ocala, FL · about 36 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (352) 355-2383

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 FL2541200. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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