Water Treatment
Services in
Wellington, FL

For decades the Village softened its well water mainly in its older lime plant. Lime softening lowers hardness well, but it does little about PFAS and leaves more of the natural organic matter that turns into disinfection byproducts once chlorine is added. Nanofiltration membranes handle all three, and the Village's Membrane Master Plan calls for replacing lime softening completely, with future PFAS rules in mind.

The work is well along. In its February 2025 response to EWG's database, the Village said it had built 3.6 million gallons per day of new membrane capacity since 2020 and was upgrading its sodium hypochlorite disinfection system to reduce chlorate. In April 2025 the Council approved a further 1.8 million gallons per day at Membrane Plant 2, bringing the total to 5.4. Village staff have said they hope to take the lime plant out of service around 2028 or 2029, with two more projects in design and construction.

What that means for buying a system now: the plant changes should keep lowering byproducts and PFAS over the next few years, but the water you drink today still includes lime-softened water. A whole-house carbon filter and an RO unit deal with today's water and stay useful afterward. A softener is the one purchase worth holding off on unless your test clearly calls for it, because membrane water will only get softer.

EWG's Tap Water Database labels its data for the Village as 2013 to 2023, and rating sites copy those figures with no date at all. The Village has pointed out that its chlorate and chromium-6 results came from EPA's third unregulated-contaminant round in 2013, and its HAA9 result from the fourth round in 2018. It also confirmed that those results match its own testing. Both statements are true: the numbers are real, and they're old.

That's why one site can give Wellington water a near-perfect grade while another lists several contaminants "above guidelines." The first compares results with EPA's legal limits, which the Village meets. The second compares them with health goals or advocacy guidelines, some of which are set at or near zero. Neither looks inside your house. A current reading at your own faucet, plus the Village's latest report, is a better basis for a decision than either grade.

The Equestrian Preserve covers about 9,000 acres of the Village's south and west, protected for low-density horse properties since 2002 and laced with roughly 65 miles of bridle trails. Many of those properties have Village water at the house and a private well for the barn, wash stalls, waterers or irrigation. Some never had Village water at all: parts of Saddle Trail Park, for example, were built on private wells, and the Village has been working on bringing water mains into the neighborhood.

Well water skips the treatment plant entirely, so nothing in the Village's report applies to it. A shallow surficial-aquifer well in this part of the county can carry iron that stains stalls and buckets, a sulfur smell, hardness the plant would normally remove, and in some cases bacteria. Manure storage and fertilized pasture near a wellhead are worth mentioning when we test, because they change what we look for. Florida's health department advises testing private wells for bacteria and nitrate at a certified lab every year.

Barn systems are built around volume. A wash rack and a row of automatic waterers can use more water in a day than the house, so a barn line usually gets its own sediment, iron or sulfur treatment, and UV only when bacteria are found. If the house and barn share one well, we size the equipment for both. The same logic applies just north across Southern Boulevard in Loxahatchee Groves, where most homes rely on private wells.

One more boundary quirk: homes in Royal Palm Beach south of Southern Boulevard are customers of Wellington's utility, not the County's. If that's your address, this page describes your water.

Our free in-home water test takes about 20 minutes at your kitchen sink. We read hardness, chlorine level, iron, pH and total dissolved solids, so you can see what the Village blend looks like at your address on that day. On a horse property we test each well separately from the house supply. For homes finished before 1986 we also set up the free lab lead test.

The recommendation follows the readings. Byproduct and chlorine concerns point to whole-house carbon; chlorate, chromium-6, PFAS or lead concerns point to RO at the sink; hardness above what you're comfortable with points to a softener, which on Village water is often unnecessary. If you're weighing filtration against purification, our water purification systems page sets out how the two differ.

Most standard installs are done the same day. A whole-house carbon tank or an under-sink RO typically takes 2–4 hours, and barn systems are scheduled around well access and property size. We use Fleck and Clack control valves, backed by a 5-year valve and 10-year tank warranty, and afterward you call us directly for filter changes and service, not a national call center.