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Wauchula Hills WTP (Hardee County)

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
3,038 people
Connections
442
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Bowling Greeen, FL
County
Hardee
Owner
Local government
The 2 ZIP codes it serves

33834, 33873

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Florida’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Copper: EPA’s file records a utility’s copper only when it exceeds the action level. The last here was 3.7 ppm, for the period ending Dec. 1, 2004. None since is on file, so it is not counted as a current finding.

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium: Florida’s own results, samples taken from April 15, 2020 to Aug. 15, 2024, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

73ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 73 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. Its highest single sample was 78 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 79.7 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

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

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

54.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 54.5 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. Its highest single sample was 57 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 35 ppb, in 2019.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.32ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024 average: 0.29 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.32 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.29 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.35 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.09ppm

Highest sample; found in 2 of 4

2024: not found

The highest sample, in 2020, was 0.09 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in any of its two samples. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 0.35 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Uranium

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 10 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), haloacetic acids (HAA5), fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, chromium (total) and uranium results here are Florida’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Wauchula Hills WTP (Hardee County)’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 April 15, 2020 to Aug. 15, 2024.

Testing your own tap

Wauchula Hills WTP (Hardee County)’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 Wauchula Hills WTP (Hardee County) serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Benchmark Mid Florida Laboratory

    Winter Haven, FL · about 27 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (863) 656-2020

  • Advanced Environmental Laboratories, Inc. - Tampa

    Tampa, FL · about 38 miles

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

    (813) 630-9616

  • Hillsborough County Environmental Laboratory

    Tampa, FL · about 38 miles

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

    (813) 272-5977

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 FL6254799. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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