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Is Holmes Beach, FL tap water safe?

Manatee County Utilities Dept serves Holmes Beach, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Florida’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Manatee County Utilities Dept serves Holmes Beach. In EPA’s and Florida’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 1.7 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Manatee County Utilities Dept is moderately hard to very hard, 106 to 279 mg/L (6.2 to 16.3 grains per gallon). How Florida’s water compares.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Manatee County Utilities Dept’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Holmes Beach

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Florida certifies.

The 3 labs Florida certifies closest to Holmes Beach, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Benchmark EnviroAnalytical, Inc.

    Palmetto, FL · about 11 miles

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

    (941) 723-9986

  • St. Petersburg Environmental Compliance Division Laboratory

    St. Petersburg, FL · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (727) 892-5696

  • Eurofins Nokomis

    Nokomis, FL · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (941) 488-8103

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

ZIP codes in Holmes Beach

Which ZIP codes are in Holmes Beach: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Florida Department of Health Environmental Laboratory Certification Program, drinking water labs, as listed in TNI LAMS; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Holmes Beach

Other towns in Manatee County with a page of their own.

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