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Is Memphis, FL tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Memphis, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Florida’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

1 of the 2 utilities serving Memphis has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Florida’s records: City of Palmetto Water Dept..

Manatee County Utilities Dept, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. 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.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Memphis’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

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, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Memphis

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

  • Benchmark EnviroAnalytical, Inc.

    Palmetto, FL · under a mile

    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 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (727) 892-5696

  • Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Tampa

    Tampa, FL · about 27 miles

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

    (813) 630-9616

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 Memphis

Which ZIP codes are in Memphis: 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 Memphis

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

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