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Is Neptune Beach, FL tap water safe?

Neptune Beach serves Neptune 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

Neptune Beach serves Neptune 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 0.8 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Neptune Beach’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Neptune 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 Neptune Beach, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Diversified Environmental Laboratories, Inc.

    Jacksonville, FL · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals

    (904) 807-9625

  • Eurofins Jacksonville

    Jacksonville, FL · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (904) 296-3007

  • Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Inc.

    Jacksonville, FL · about 11 miles

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

    (904) 363-9350

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 Neptune Beach

Which ZIP codes are in Neptune 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 Neptune Beach

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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