Water Treatment
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Davie, FL

Since 2014 the Town has treated brackish water from five wells drilled into the Floridan Aquifer, the deep, salty layer far below the Biscayne Aquifer most of South Florida drinks from. Its System V plant pushes that water through reverse osmosis membranes rated for about 6 million gallons a day, then aerates and disinfects it. The plant was built in a $101 million design-build project together with a 3.5 MGD membrane water reclamation facility, two deep injection wells and a new utility office. The Town's older System III plant lime-softens shallow Biscayne Aquifer water and uses anion exchange to strip out its tea color. According to the Town's 2025 water quality report, System III sat idle all of that year and every gallon came from the RO plant.

RO water leaves the plant with most of its dissolved minerals gone, which is why Town customers rarely see the white crust that Biscayne well water leaves on fixtures. Federal test data shows it plainly: in 2014 the RO plant's water carried 22 to 40 ppb of strontium, a mineral that travels with calcium, against 246 to 323 ppb in water from the Town's lime-softening plants. For billing questions, the Town's utility customer service line is 954-797-1065; questions about the water quality report go to the Utilities Department at 954-327-3742.

If your bill comes from the City of Sunrise, the plant behind it tells you more than the town name on your address. The Springtree plant lime-softens Biscayne Aquifer water, a process that drops calcium but does little to PFAS, and its 2023–24 samples carried PFOS and PFOA above the coming federal limits. The Sawgrass plant runs nanofiltration membranes, which hold most PFAS back, and its 2025 samples were clean. The small Southwest lime plant, which covers the area south of Griffin Road on Sunrise's rate map, showed PFOA of 9.3 ppt (2023) and 12.3 ppt (December 2024). Sunrise's systems are connected, so a home near a boundary can get a blend.

For a Pine Island Ridge or far-southwest home, the straightforward fix is an RO system at the kitchen sink: five stages, NSF/ANSI certified and designed to remove PFAS from drinking and cooking water. Bathing water doesn't need it. Our page on Sunrise's three plants covers their test history in more detail, including the City's spring chlorination dates.

Town of Davie water is soft. Reverse osmosis takes out nearly all the calcium and magnesium, so a softener on Town water mostly adds a salt bill. If you bought a house that came with one, we can check whether it's still doing anything useful or simply bypass it.

Sunrise water varies. Raw water at Sunrise's Sawgrass wellfields averaged 265 mg/L of hardness in 2019, about 15.5 grains per gallon, and the plants soften it before delivery: membranes at Sawgrass, lime at Springtree and Southwest. Neither report prints a finished hardness number, so we read it at your tap. If the reading leaves scale in the water heater and spots on shower glass, we size a softener from it (most family homes need 48,000 to 64,000 grains); our water softener installation page lists the valves and tank sizes.

Wells are hard. The U.S. Geological Survey tested 189 Biscayne Aquifer wells; their typical untreated water came to about 14 grains per gallon, and more than half carried iron above 0.3 ppm. That raw-water range is where the 14 to 16 grains per gallon figure you may have seen quoted for the town comes from. It describes well water, and it doesn't describe what comes out of a Town of Davie tap.

Both the Town and Sunrise disinfect with chloramine (chlorine combined with a little ammonia) because it holds up longer across miles of pipe. It's also behind the faint pool smell. Every year or two each utility switches to free chlorine for a few weeks to clean out its mains, and the water tastes sharper while it lasts. The Town's last announced switch ran May 16 to June 13, 2025 (earlier ones were March 3–24, 2023 and August 12 to September 9, 2022), and it applied only to Town customers. Sunrise ran its own from April 27 to May 25, 2026. Hacienda Village gets Fort Lauderdale's notices instead. Dialysis centers are told ahead of time, and aquarium keepers need a water conditioner that neutralizes chloramine as well as chlorine.

Chloramine slips through a standard carbon pitcher. A catalytic carbon tank on the incoming main cuts chloramine, the chlorine weeks and many disinfection byproducts for the whole house. If you also have a softener, the carbon goes first so chloramine doesn't eat the resin. See our whole-house water filtration page for tank sizes.

Both were measured only once at the national level, in EPA's 2013–14 round, so these are the newest public figures. All ten Town samples had chromium-6, between 0.084 and 0.27 ppb, which is far below California's 10 ppb limit and above EWG's 0.02 ppb guideline. Chlorate turned up in all ten samples too. Five were over the 210 ppb level EPA uses for screening, and the top result, 890 ppb, came from SW 25th Street. Neither has a federal limit, so neither makes the water illegal or unsafe under current rules.

If you'd rather drink less of both, the same under-sink RO that handles PFAS on the Sunrise side reduces chromium-6 and chlorate. On Town water it's a choice, and we'll say so.

About half of the Town's customer buildings predate the solder ban. The Town's lead service line inventory lists about 10,000 connections; for those with a Broward County Property Appraiser build year, roughly 4,700 went up before 1986 and 5,200 after. Playland Village, east of Davie Road, is mostly early-1960s houses, and the Nova Village, Nova Hills and Brentwood condo and townhouse complexes date from the 1970s and early 1980s. The town grew from 5,859 residents in 1970 to 47,217 in 1990, U.S. Census figures show, so a great deal of the town was plumbed with copper and lead solder. The utility's pipes are clear, but the solder inside an older house can still show up in the first glass of the morning.

The free lab test answers it for your faucet. We draw the first water out of the tap after an overnight sit, and a certified lab tests it for free. If it comes back high, the fix goes on that faucet: RO or a lead-certified filter.

Condos and townhouses. Whole-unit carbon works only where your unit has its own main line and the association signs off; RO under the sink needs neither.

Water mains reach most of the town, but some acreage properties still run the house, the barn or the irrigation off a private well, and parts of Davie remain on septic. Well water comes straight from the Biscayne Aquifer with no treatment and no disinfectant: hard, often carrying iron that stains fences and laundry orange, sometimes a rotten-egg sulfur smell, and with no utility checking it for bacteria. Florida's Department of Health recommends a bacteria test on private wells every year and again after flooding.

For a well we test iron, hardness, pH, sulfur and bacteria before quoting. Expect $2,800–$4,500 installed for an iron filter plus softener, $4,000–$7,000 for a full six-stage system, and $4,500–$8,500 when the barn line is included. Neighboring Southwest Ranches, a mostly well-water town next door, draws from the same aquifer and has the same issues.

Book the free water test and plan on about 20 minutes. At the kitchen sink we measure grains-per-gallon hardness, chloramine, pH, iron and total dissolved solids, confirm whether you're on Town, Sunrise, Ferncrest or well water, and compare the numbers with that supplier's published results. Older homes can add the lab lead test at no cost.

Installation usually happens the same day; a single tank takes two to four hours and a three-stage setup four to six. Afterward the same local team handles filter, carbon and membrane replacement, and softener owners can get salt delivered to the door. When you call, you reach our own office.