Community Water System · PWSID FL5264054

Riverbend Estates

Serves 200 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateLabelle, Florida
Nothing open that measures the water, but 2 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 2016: 38 violations. 18 over the limit · 18 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2025-08-01.

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

18Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
18Missed or late test1 open
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 96% 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

2005201020152016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Missed or late test: 32016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12018 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 22019 · Over the limit: 82019 · Over the limit: 82019 · Over the limit: 82019 · Over the limit: 82019 · Over the limit: 82019 · Over the limit: 82019 · Over the limit: 82019 · Over the limit: 82019 · Missed or late test: 22019 · Missed or late test: 22020 · Over the limit: 52020 · Over the limit: 52020 · Over the limit: 52020 · Over the limit: 52020 · Over the limit: 520202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Missed or late test: 22021 · Missed or late test: 22022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 12024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Missed or late test: 22024 · Notice or report: 12025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025 · Missed or late test: 62025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
47% over the limit · 1847% missed or late test · 185% 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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.5 ppb
1 ppb
0.9 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  2. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-08-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2025-08-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2025-03-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2025-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2025-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2025-02-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2024-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  8. 2024-06-01E. ColiFailure to Conduct Assessment MonitoringBack in compliance
  9. 2024-06-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2023-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  11. 2022-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  12. 2021-07-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  13. 2021-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 103.57 UG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 85.77 UG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2021-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  16. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 115.58 UG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2020-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 104.62 UG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2020-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 103.11 UG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2020-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 169.04 UG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2020-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 68.36 UG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2020-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 125.97 UG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2019-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 151.15 UG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2019-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 67.39 UG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2019-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 163.63 UG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2019-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 88.74 UG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 13 entries
  1. 2019-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 89.37 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2019-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 144.04 UG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 144.04 UG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 87.75 UG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2019-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  6. 2019-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  7. 2018-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 99.69 UG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2018-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 61.36 UG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTBack in compliance
  13. 2016-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served200
Service connections45
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityLabelle
EPA ZIP on file33935

Areas served

  • Labelle, Hendry County

Reading this record

Riverbend Estates is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 200 people in Labelle, 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.