Community Water System · PWSID FL2630202

Lake Butler Wtp

Serves 1,875 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentLake Butler, Florida
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2015: 20 violations. 1 over the limit · 18 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-01-01.

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

1Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
18Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 89% 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

200520102015 · Over the limit: 12015 · Missed or late test: 22015 · Missed or late test: 2201520202022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Missed or late test: 112024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 22025 · Missed or late test: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% over the limit · 190% missed or late test · 185% notice or report · 1

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

2.7 ppb
2.2 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-01-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-12-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-12-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-11-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-10-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  8. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  9. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  10. 2024-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2024-07-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  13. 2024-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  14. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  16. 2022-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  19. 2015-06-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  20. 2015-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance

System details

Population served1,875
Service connections750
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityLake Butler
EPA ZIP on file32054-2016

Areas served

  • Lake Butler, Union County

Reading this record

Lake Butler Wtp is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 1,875 people in Lake Butler, 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.