Community Water System · PWSID FL3481482

Winter Park, City of (3 Wps)

Serves 82,984 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentWinter Park, 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 2003: 8 violations. 2 over the limit · 1 missed or late test · 5 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-04-01.

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
1Missed or late test
5Notice or report2 open

More violations on record than 67% 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

2003 · Notice or report: 22003 · Notice or report: 22004 · Notice or report: 120052009 · Notice or report: 12010 · Notice or report: 1201020152018 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 213% missed or late test · 163% notice or report · 5

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

2.5 ppb
1.7 ppb
1.4 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  2. 2003-07-21Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 80.97 UG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2021-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 82.10 UG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2018-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  4. 2010-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingBack in compliance
  5. 2009-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  7. 2003-07-21Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Inadequate ReportingOpen
  8. 2003-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served82,984
Service connections23,791
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWinter Park
EPA ZIP on file32789

Areas served

  • Winter Park, Orange County

Reading this record

Winter Park, City of (3 Wps) is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 82,984 people in Winter Park, 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.