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North Lauderdale, FL

City of North Lauderdale (most homes). If your bill comes from Utility Billing at 701 SW 71st Avenue, you're on City water, and everything in the report section above applies to your tap. The City reads more than 7,000 residential meters and maintains about 58 miles of water main.

Fort Lauderdale (several named areas). When the City plant lost power in June 2021, the City's boil-water notice excluded homes billed by Fort Lauderdale and named them: the Broadview and Pompano Park area, The Glen at Cypress Creek and the Courtyards of Broward. Fort Lauderdale began shifting work from its old Fiveash lime plant to the new Prospect Lake plant in September 2026; our Fort Lauderdale water page covers that change and its results.

Broward County (other pockets). The County's customer notice lists its Water Treatment Plant 1A in Lauderdale Lakes as serving portions of North Lauderdale. Federal tests there found PFOS at 18.9 ppt in April 2024 and 20.7 ppt that October. The County has hired engineers to add nanofiltration at that plant, aiming for April 2029.

Raw water comes from City wells in the Biscayne Aquifer. At the plant it is aerated to drive off odor, softened with lime and other chemicals to drop out minerals, filtered for finer particles and then dosed with chloramine. The City finished a new raw-water well, Well 4, in March 2026, and its 2025 report says engineers have been consulted on the design of a nanofiltration plant. The plant runs around the clock, and its staff take the compliance samples themselves.

A few figures that rarely make it onto other sites: nitrate was 0.13 ppm and nitrite 0.19 ppm at most in 2025 (limits 10 and 1), sodium was 30.0 ppm in 2023, and combined radium was 0.3 pCi/L. EPA's 2014 tests found chromium-6 at 0.14 to 0.44 ppb and chlorate at 67 to 71 ppb, both without a federal limit. Fluoride ranged from 0.39 to 0.76 ppm in the January–June 2025 samples; Florida law ended added fluoride that July. In 2025 the state's source water assessment found three possible contamination sources near the wells, all rated low.

On October 3, 2025, a raw-water sample from Well 2 came back positive for E. coli. Of five extra samples, four showed total coliform and none showed E. coli. The City took the well off line, chlorinated and flushed it, and later samples were satisfactory. Coliform had also turned up in January. Each event triggered a required review of the system: the January review found no specific cause, and the October review found three broken, corroded sampling taps, which were replaced.

Home equipment isn't a substitute for a boil-water notice. If the City issues one, follow it whether or not you have RO or carbon. The City's report explains that precautionary notices can also follow a main break. The June 2021 notice came after a storm knocked out power at the plant, and it was lifted three days later.

EPA's UCMR 5 program tested the City plant for 29 PFAS. The October 2023 sample found eight, led by PFOS at 29 ppt. That's nearly three times the 9.8 to 11 ppt measured at Tamarac's west-side plant, which also lime-softens Biscayne well water, and more than the County's Lauderdale Lakes plant. Lime softening isn't designed to remove PFAS, which is why the City is looking at nanofiltration. The 4 ppt standard doesn't take effect until 2029, so the City isn't in violation today.

At home, a carbon tank on the main line won't bring PFOS down to that level reliably. An under-sink reverse osmosis system is the tool for it: our five-stage, NSF/ANSI-certified unit is designed to reduce PFAS, lead and chromium-6 in the water you drink and cook with.

The City's report doesn't publish a hardness number. Lime softening takes out part of the calcium before the water leaves the plant, so tap water here is softer than raw aquifer water, which often tests around 14 grains per gallon in U.S. Geological Survey sampling of the Biscayne Aquifer. Figures you'll see online for this city range widely, and none of them come from the City. We measure grains at your kitchen tap, and if the reading and the spots on your shower glass both point to a softener, we size one from that number. Most single-family homes land between 32,000 and 48,000 grains of capacity; a condo often needs less. Valve and resin choices are on our water softener installation page.

The faint yellow or tea tint some people notice is the organic color the 2024 report flagged. A softener does nothing for it. Catalytic carbon does, and it also protects softener resin from chloramine, so when both are installed the carbon goes first.

Once a year the City switches from chloramine to free chlorine and flushes hydrants across the system. Its last posted notice ran from September 19 to October 18, 2024, about a month, longer than some neighboring utilities run it, and the bleach smell is sharper during that time. The City advises dialysis patients to ask their doctor and aquarium owners to ask a pet store before the switch.

A catalytic carbon tank where the main line enters the house removes chloramine and the fall chlorine at every tap and shower, and it lifts most of the color too. Byproducts were low in 2025, so here the tank is mainly about smell, taste and showering. Sizing is covered on the whole-house filtration page.

Built fast in the 1970s. The city was incorporated on July 10, 1963 on former dairy and bean farmland, planned by architect Morris Lapidus, and most of it went up during a building boom in the 1970s. Census estimates for 2020–2024 count 16,396 homes with a median build year of 1978; 6,620 were built in the 1970s and about four in five before 1990. Only about 36% are detached houses. Roughly 2,600 are townhouses or villas, about 3,100 sit in buildings of 20 or more units, and close to 800 are mobile homes. Four in ten households rent.

What that means for equipment. In a condo or a townhouse row, one supply line often serves several units and the association decides what goes on it, so under-sink RO is usually the first step and a whole-house tank needs your own line plus board approval. Renters can ask a landlord about RO, which comes out cleanly when you move. Mobile homes often have tight plumbing spaces, so we check where a tank can sit before quoting one.

Lead. The City notes that Florida stopped allowing lead water pipe in 1977, and its inventory found no lead service lines. Lead solder in home plumbing was legal until 1986, though, which covers most homes here. We take a first-draw sample from your kitchen tap after the water sits overnight and send it to a certified lab at no charge. The City suggests running the tap, showering or doing a load of laundry first when water has sat for hours.

The free water test takes about 20 minutes at your kitchen sink. We measure hardness, chloramine, total dissolved solids, pH and iron, then go over your supplier's report with you for PFAS and bacteria history, which only a certified lab can measure.

Most systems go in the same day you approve the quote. A single tank takes 2 to 4 hours and a three-stage system 4 to 6. After that, our own technicians handle filter replacement visits, and softener owners in 33068 and 33319 can set up salt delivery. When you call, someone at our local office answers.