Water Treatment
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Coconut Creek, FL

Coconut Creek was incorporated on February 20, 1967, and the 2020 Census counted 57,833 people. Parkland, Coral Springs and Margate border it on the west, Deerfield Beach and Pompano Beach on the east. It is home to Butterfly World in Tradewinds Park, the Seminole casino on State Road 7 and the large Wynmoor retirement community on the east side.

The City runs a water utility but no water plant. Its crews maintain the pipes, read the meters and collect samples at 60 locations a month, while the water itself is made by Broward County. That arrangement, plus the Margate-served south end, means two different water reports describe Coconut Creek taps. The sections below go through both, then cover what is worth treating in a house or condo here.

Two Water Suppliers in Coconut Creek: City Water North of the Parkway, Margate Water South

The City of Coconut Creek (EPA system FL4061584) serves about 54,000 people through 11,266 connections, according to EPA records. Its service area takes in nearly all of the city north of Coconut Creek Parkway: Wynmoor, Township, Cocoplum, the Hilton Road and Banyan Trails area, the homes around Winston Park and Lakeside Park, and Regency Lakes near Hillsboro Boulevard. It also reaches past the city line into eastern Parkland, where communities such as Mayfair, Parkland Terraces and Whittier Oaks pay Coconut Creek water bills.

South of the parkway, the City of Margate's Department of Environmental and Engineering Services is the water provider, even though the addresses say Coconut Creek. On Broward County's water provider map, Margate's area runs from about the parkway down past Lakewood Park toward Atlantic Boulevard along Lyons Road. Coconut Creek High School and Broward College's North Campus are inside it.

The quickest check is your bill. A City of Coconut Creek bill means County water through the City's pipes; a Margate bill means Margate's plant. A small strip at the city's far north edge shows as unassigned on the County map, so homes there should confirm with the City.

How Broward County's 2A Plant and Margate's Plant Treat the Water

Both sources are wells in the Biscayne Aquifer, the shallow limestone aquifer under most of Broward County, and both plants use lime softening, the older method. Neither has membranes yet.

Lime softening takes out a good share of the calcium but leaves more minerals and organic matter than membrane treatment does. That is why the hardness and byproduct figures below look different from cities that run nanofiltration plants.

Coconut Creek Water Quality Report: 2025 Results Side by Side

Both reports are short and worth a look: the City of Coconut Creek 2025 report and the City of Margate 2025 report.

PFOS, PFOA and 6:2 FTS Results From EPA Testing

Whichever side of the parkway you live on, the PFAS numbers land in about the same place, around 22 to 28 ppt of PFOS. That fits what is known about the area: both plants draw from the Biscayne Aquifer a few miles apart, and lime softening does little to PFAS. South Deerfield Beach drinks the same County water and shows the same range.

The tests also picked up smaller amounts of other PFAS, including 6:2 FTS (fluorotelomer sulfonate) at 6.3 ppt in City water in May 2024 and 11.8 ppt in Margate's in August 2024. There is no federal limit for 6:2 FTS. If you want drinking and cooking water well under the 4 ppt PFOS mark before 2029, an under-sink RO unit is the tool built for it; see how our RO drinking water systems are set up. A whole-house carbon tank or a softener won't do that job.

Chloramine, the Spring and Fall Chlorine Switch, and Chlorate

Both utilities keep chloramine in the pipes year-round, which gives the water its faint pool smell. Twice a year, Broward County changes District 2 over to free chlorine for roughly three weeks while it flushes the lines, and the City of Coconut Creek passes that water straight through. In 2026 the spring switch started April 27 and the fall one ran from September 28 to October 19. The City notes the stronger smell can take up to two weeks to clear after the County switches back.

Chlorate, which comes from the hypochlorite used in disinfection, is the other point worth knowing. EPA's 2014 tests of City water found 1,100 ppb at the Wiles Road connection in September and at Parkland's Cypress Trail in October, about five times EPA's health reference level. That data is more than ten years old and no newer public numbers exist for either supply. RO reduces chlorate; carbon does not.

Catalytic carbon on the main line takes chloramine out at every faucet and shower. Standard carbon in a pitcher or refrigerator filter does much less against it, and chloramine slowly breaks down softener resin if nothing removes it first.

Hard Water on Lime-Softened Supplies: Is a Softener Worth It?

Probably, but measure first. Neither the City of Coconut Creek nor Margate publishes a finished hardness figure, and the numbers floating around online for local ZIP codes don't come from either utility. What is documented is the raw water: a USGS study of 189 Biscayne Aquifer wells put median hardness near 245 mg/L, about 14 grains per gallon. Lime softening removes part of that, so the water reaching your tap is softer than the raw figure but it can still be hard enough to leave white crust on shower heads, glass doors and pool tile.

The free test includes a hardness reading, so the decision rests on your number. If it supports one, our softener installs are sized to that reading and your household's use, usually 48,000 to 64,000 grains, with 10% crosslink resin on a Fleck or Clack valve. That resin lasts longer on chloramine water. If your reading comes back low, we'll say so and you can skip the softener.

Wynmoor Condos, 1980s Houses and Lead Solder

Coconut Creek is mostly a 1980s and 1990s city. Of about 27,300 housing units, 8,614 went up in the 1980s and 6,660 in the 1990s, and the median building year is 1989 (Census ACS, 2020–2024). Only about one unit in five predates 1980. About 39% of homes sit in buildings of ten units or more, 29% are detached houses, and roughly 1,200 are mobile homes.

Wynmoor, the gated 55-and-over condominium community on the city's east side south of Sample Road, dates from the late 1970s and 1980s and is on City water. For Wynmoor and other condos, the Water Wizards FAQ notes that whole-house equipment requires a reachable main line for the unit and sign-off from the association, so most owners start with RO or carbon under the kitchen sink.

On lead, the City has checked every service line and reports no lead, galvanized or unknown lines in its system. The City also points out that lead solder was used in Florida plumbing until it was banned in 1989, and brass fixtures can add a little. So the place lead can come from in an older Coconut Creek home or condo is its own plumbing. For buildings from the 1980s or earlier, a first-draw sample goes to a certified lab, free of charge.

Filtration and Softening for Lime-Softened, Chloraminated Water

Installed Prices for RO, Carbon and Softener Systems

What Happens at the Test, the Install and Afterward

Water Treatment Service Area in Coconut Creek

Questions Homeowners Ask About the Water Here