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Village of Virginia Gardens

What EPA’s and Florida’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
2,472 people
Connections
609
Water source
Groundwater bought from another system
Based in
Virginia Gardens, FL
County
Miami - Dade
Owner
Local government
The ZIP code it serves

33166

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Lead, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Lead and copper: EPA SDWIS monitoring periods ending 2003 to 2024.

Haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): Florida’s own results, samples taken from July 8, 2022 to Oct. 1, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Lead

Comes from pipes, often your own

Above the health goal

1.9ppb

90th percentile, 2024

In the latest period, 9 in 10 homes sampled were at or below 1.9 ppb, below EPA’s action level of 15 ppb. The action level drops to 10 ppb on Nov. 1, 2027. EPA’s health goal for lead is zero.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

48ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 48 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 65 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. EPA recorded no violation for haloacetic acids (HAA5) at this utility since 2020. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 73 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

44.3ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2024

2024 average: 10.4 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 44.3 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 51 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its eight samples averaged 10.4 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 16.4 ppb, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

Lead and copper usually come from pipes and fixtures inside or near your home. A whole-house system sits where water enters, so it cannot catch what your own plumbing adds after it. For those, the filter that counts is the one at the tap. How whole-house systems compare.

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 4 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are Florida’s own from 2022 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Village of Virginia Gardens’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Florida’s results run from July 8, 2022 to Oct. 1, 2024.

Testing your own tap

Village of Virginia Gardens’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Florida certifies.

The 3 labs Florida certifies closest to the area Village of Virginia Gardens serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • FL Department of Health - Miami Branch Laboratory

    Miami, FL · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (305) 324-2432

  • Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Miami

    Miramar, FL · about 11 miles

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

    (954) 889-2288

  • EMSL Analytical, Inc. - FL

    North Miami Beach, FL · about 12 miles

    Certified for asbestos

    (305) 650-0577

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

Sources

PWSID FL4131531. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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