Community Water System · PWSID FL6531237

City of Mulberry

Serves 3,780 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentMulberry, Florida

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On record since 2017: 12 violations. 2 over the limit · 8 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-09-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

2Over the limit

0Treatment lapse

8Missed or late test

2Notice or report

More violations on record than 79% of active water systems in Florida. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.

17% over the limit · 267% missed or late test · 817% notice or report · 2

Across Florida, 85% of violations are missed or late tests and 5% are water over a limit.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

6 ppb

3 ppb

2 ppb

Every violation on record

2024-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
2024-09-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
2024-04-01BariumMCL, Averagemeasured 2.83 MG/LBack in compliance
2024-01-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
2023-10-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
2023-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
2023-07-01BariumMCL, Averagemeasured 11.30 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2023-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2023-06-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
2023-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance

System details

Population served	3,780
Service connections	1,956
Water source	Groundwater
System type	Community Water System
Owner	Local Government
Status	Active
City	Mulberry
EPA ZIP on file	33860

Areas served

Mulberry, Polk County

Reading this record

City of Mulberry is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 3,780 people in Mulberry, Florida. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.