Community Water System · PWSID FL1670733

Northwest Florida Reception Center

Serves 2,500 peopleGroundwaterOwner: StateTallahassee, Florida
Nothing open that measures the water, but 6 open testing or paperwork violations.

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 2009: 39 violations. 14 over the limit · 23 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-07-01.

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

14Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
23Missed or late test4 open
2Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 97% 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

20052009 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Missed or late test: 120152018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32018 · Missed or late test: 32019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 22019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62019 · Missed or late test: 62020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32021 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 22022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Over the limit: 32023 · Over the limit: 32023 · Over the limit: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32023 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 32024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
36% over the limit · 1459% missed or late test · 235% 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 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

2.9 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.3 ppb
1.1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

1.9 mg/L

Open now (6)

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  4. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  5. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  6. 2009-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  3. 2024-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 76.58 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 76.58 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  6. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  7. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 89.83 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 77.82 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 60.25 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-02-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2023-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 99.53 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2023-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2023-01-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.40 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2022-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2022-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  18. 2022-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 95.56 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2021-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 94.16 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2021-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 103.77 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 101.06 UG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  25. 2020-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
Show the other 14 entries
  1. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 62.00 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2019-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  4. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  5. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 68.50 UG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2019-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  7. 2019-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  8. 2019-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  9. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  10. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2018-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 66.47 UG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2018-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2011-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  14. 2009-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

System details

Population served2,500
Service connections39
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerState
StatusActive
CityTallahassee
EPA ZIP on file32399-2500

Areas served

  • Chipley, Washington County

Reading this record

Northwest Florida Reception Center is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 2,500 people in Tallahassee, 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.