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Is Ocean City, FL tap water safe?

Okaloosa Co.Wtr.; Swr.System serves Ocean City, 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

Okaloosa Co.Wtr.; Swr.System serves Ocean City. In EPA’s and Florida’s records it has 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 24.6 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. 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 Okaloosa Co.Wtr.; Swr.System’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Ocean City

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

  • Destin Water Users, Inc.

    Destin, FL · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (850) 837-6146

  • Analytical Services Corporation

    Niceville, FL · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (850) 678-5313

  • Future Laboratories, Inc.

    Milton, FL · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (850) 623-6110

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 Ocean City

Which ZIP codes are in Ocean City: 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 Ocean City

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

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