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Is Suncoast Estates, FL tap water safe?

Lee County Utilities serves Suncoast Estates, 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

Lee County Utilities serves Suncoast Estates. In EPA’s and Florida’s records it has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 2 results above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 5.9 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

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 Lee County Utilities’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Suncoast Estates

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

  • FL Dept. of Health - Lee County Health Department

    Ft. Myers, FL · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (239) 274-2200

  • Lee County Environmental Laboratory

    Ft. Myers, FL · about 12 miles

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

    (239) 533-8600

  • Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Fort Myers

    Fort Myers, FL · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics

    (239) 674-8130

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 Suncoast Estates

Which ZIP codes are in Suncoast Estates: 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 Suncoast Estates

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

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