Community Water System · PWSID FL4501124

Seacoast Utilities Authority

Serves 97,552 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Public/PrivatePalm Beach Gardens, 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 2015: 54 violations. 53 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-05-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
53Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 98% 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 · Missed or late test: 120152017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442017 · Missed or late test: 442018 · Missed or late test: 120202024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Missed or late test: 72024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square ≈ 4 violations (rounded up), by the year they began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
98% missed or late test · 532% 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 15 results on file · action level 15 ppb

9 ppb
6.6 ppb
5.5 ppb
4.1 ppb
3.3 ppb
3.3 ppb
2.5 ppb
2.2 ppb
2 ppb
1.9 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.6 ppb
1.5 ppb
1.2 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-05-01Revised Total Coliform RuleRPTOpen
  2. 2024-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-03-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  7. 2024-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2024-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2018-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  10. 2017-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  11. 2017-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Monitoring and Reporting (DBP)Back in compliance
  12. 2017-05-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  13. 2017-01-01CyanideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2017-01-012, 4-DMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2017-01-01CarbofuranMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2017-01-01HexachlorocyclopentadieneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2017-01-01BariumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2017-01-01PentachlorophenolMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2017-01-012, 4, 5-TpMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2017-01-01PicloramMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2017-01-01SimazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2017-01-01Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2017-01-01GlyphosateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2017-01-01DiquatMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
Show the other 29 entries
  1. 2017-01-01Thallium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2017-01-01NickelMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2017-01-01Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)Monitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2017-01-01HexachlorobenzeneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2017-01-01Heptachlor epoxideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2017-01-01LassoMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2017-01-01OxamylMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2017-01-01CadmiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2017-01-01ChlordaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2017-01-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2017-01-01MethoxychlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2017-01-01Beryllium, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2017-01-01DalaponMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2017-01-01LeadMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2017-01-01AtrazineMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2017-01-01ArsenicMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2017-01-01Antimony, TotalMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  18. 2017-01-01ChromiumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2017-01-01DinosebMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  20. 2017-01-01ToxapheneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2017-01-01EndrinMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  22. 2017-01-01SeleniumMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  23. 2017-01-01MercuryMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  24. 2017-01-01FluorideMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  25. 2017-01-01EndothallMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  26. 2017-01-01Benzo(a)pyreneMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  27. 2017-01-01HeptachlorMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  28. 2017-01-01Bhc-GammaMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  29. 2015-01-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served97,552
Service connections36,807
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPublic/Private
StatusActive
CityPalm Beach Gardens
EPA ZIP on file33410-9602

Areas served

  • Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach County

Reading this record

Seacoast Utilities Authority is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 97,552 people in Palm Beach Gardens, 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.