Water Treatment
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Lighthouse Point, FL

For most addresses it's Broward County Water and Wastewater Services. The City of Lighthouse Point doesn't bill for water at all, and its own guidance points residents to the County, adding that a small portion of the city gets its water from Pompano Beach. Pompano Beach's planning documents place those customers mainly in the southern part of Lighthouse Point, south of NE 31st Court, but the bill is the reliable way to tell.

The County's homes here sit in its District 2 service area, which is fed by Water Treatment Plant 2A in Pompano Beach. That plant opened in 1975 and pumps from Biscayne Aquifer wells, then softens the water with lime and runs it through dual-media filters. Pompano Beach's plant draws from the same aquifer at two wellfields and treats part of its flow with lime and part with nanofiltration membranes before blending.

The split matters for one practical reason: each utility tests, reports and schedules maintenance on its own. If you're on County water, its notices and the District 2 column of its report apply to you. If you're on Pompano Beach water, the City's report and its laboratory at 954-545-7018 are the ones to use.

Lime softening is the older of the two processes. Lime added to the raw well water makes calcium settle out, along with much of the color, and filters catch what's left. It takes out a large share of the aquifer's hardness but not all of it, and it does nothing for PFAS. Pompano Beach's nanofiltration side pushes water through membranes that hold back hardness and many dissolved compounds; that part of the plant was added in the 2000s.

Both utilities then add chlorine and ammonia to form chloramine, which lasts longer in warm pipes than plain chlorine. To keep the system clean, Broward County runs a free-chlorine period in District 2 about twice a year. The fall 2026 round was scheduled from September 28 to October 19, and the spring 2026 round began April 27 and lasted about three weeks. Pompano Beach also does occasional free-chlorine treatments while flushing lines.

Taste is a fair measure of how well the plants do their job. In 2025 Pompano Beach's water won the Florida Section AWWA Region VI Best Tasting Drinking Water award, with a perfect score from the judges. What a home system adds on top of that is narrower: catalytic carbon for the chloramine taste in showers and every faucet, and reverse osmosis for the PFAS that both plants currently pass through.

EPA set a limit of 4 parts per trillion each for PFOA and PFOS in 2024, with compliance due in 2029. Pompano Beach's 2025 quarterly samples ranged from 14 to 18 ppt PFOS and 4.5 to 6.3 ppt PFOA. Broward County's budget documents report both compounds above 4 ppt in treated water at Plant 2A as well as its Lauderdale Lakes plant. These are results under a future limit, not violations, and EPA has said it may extend the deadline to 2031.

Neither utility is waiting. In January 2026 Broward County selected engineers to design nanofiltration systems for Plant 2A and its other plant, with a six-mile main to connect them, and is still aiming for April 2029. Pompano Beach plans to expand its membrane plant to replace the aging lime-softening side and has received $9.56 million in grants toward the design.

Until those plants are running, the practical step for a household is treatment at the kitchen tap. An under-sink reverse osmosis system is designed to reduce PFAS along with lead and other dissolved contaminants in the water you drink and cook with. A softener doesn't touch PFAS, and a whole-house carbon tank isn't sized to be relied on for it.

Most of the city's single-family homes went up as the canals were dug, which means plenty of houses built well before 1986, when lead solder was banned in drinking water plumbing. Neither utility has lead service lines on record, so in an older home the question is the copper pipe joints and fixtures inside the walls. We arrange a certified lab lead test at no charge; a first-draw morning sample is the one that tells you the most.

Lighthouse Point also has condo buildings and townhome communities, and a whole-house system in a condo needs access to the unit's main water line and HOA approval before anything is installed. An under-sink RO system is the usual alternative, since it handles the PFAS question without touching building plumbing.

The 2020 Census counted about one in seven homes here as vacant, a figure that includes seasonal homes left empty for the summer. Water that sits in pipes for months loses its chloramine and picks up more from the plumbing, so run each tap for a few minutes when you return. If you have a softener or RO, ask us to check it before you leave for the summer; a system that sits idle can need a regeneration and fresh filters on your return.

Not always, and the test decides it. Both plants remove much of the aquifer's hardness, so tap water here is softer than a private well in the same aquifer would be. What's left still varies with plant operations and with which utility serves your street, and neither publishes a figure, so we measure grains per gallon at your kitchen tap.

If the reading is low, carbon and RO usually cover what you need and a softener adds little. If it's high enough to leave scale in the kettle, crust on shower heads and film on glass, a softener sized to that number protects the water heater and fixtures. Which utility serves your street can shift that reading, which is one more reason to size from your own test.

We start with a free water test at your tap: hardness in grains per gallon, chloramine, total dissolved solids, pH and iron. PFAS can only be measured by a certified lab, so for that we go by your utility's results, which are recent and specific to your plant. If your home predates 1986, the free lab lead test is part of the visit.

Installation is same-day for most standard systems. We use Fleck and Clack control valves with 5-year valve and 10-year tank warranties, and 10% crosslink resin, which holds up better on chloramine water. After that, a local team handles filter changes and RO service, carbon rebeds and softener salt delivery in 33064, and you call us directly rather than a national call center.