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Sunshine Meadows

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
60 people
Connections
25
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Delray Beach, FL
County
Palm Beach
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

33498

The short answer

1 result is above EPA’s legal limit, and 1 more is above the limit’s level with no violation recorded. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), above the legal limit. 6 health-based violations since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, chromium (total), nitrate and arsenic: Florida’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 19, 2020 to Dec. 19, 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

161ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024 average: 151 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 161 ppb, in 2020, about twice EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 350 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its four samples averaged 151 ppb, above the limit. EPA recorded violations for total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at this utility in 2020, 2021 and 2025. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 27.2 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

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

Above the limit’s level, no violation recorded1

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Above the limit’s level, no violation

79.6ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 79.6 ppb, in 2024, above EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 271 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. EPA judges this limit on running averages at each sampling point, and recorded no violation for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility since 2020. Results like these with no violation often include water sampled before treatment or blending; the utility’s annual report says what reaches the tap. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 54.3 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Below EPA’s limits3

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.24ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.24 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.14 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

4.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 4.2 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 7.0 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.38ppm

Highest sample; found in 2 of 6

2024: not found

The highest sample, in 2021, was 0.38 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 10 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • 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: 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, AverageOct. 1, 2025 to Dec. 31, 2025110 UG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJuly 1, 2025 to Sept. 30, 2025103 UG/LArchived
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2025 to June 30, 2025152 UG/LArchived
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageApril 1, 2021 to June 30, 202196.2 UG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageJan. 1, 2021 to March 31, 202195.5 UG/LResolved
TTHMThe running average was above the legal limit.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, AverageOct. 1, 2020 to Dec. 31, 202090.5 UG/LResolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record. 13 monitoring or reporting violations not shown.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, chromium (total), nitrate and arsenic results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Sunshine Meadows’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. 19, 2020 to Dec. 19, 2024.

Testing your own tap

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

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC-Pompano FL

    Pompano Beach, FL · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (954) 582-4300

  • Eurofins Fort Lauderdale

    Fort Lauderdale, FL · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (954) 391-9334

  • Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services, Inc.

    Ft. Lauderdale, FL · about 14 miles

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

    (954) 978-6400

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 FL4504285. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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