Water Treatment
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Parkland, FL

North Springs Improvement District serves more of the city's communities than either of the others, including Heron Bay, MiraLago, Parkland Golf & Country Club, Parkland Isles, Watercrest, Parkland Bay, Cascata and The Landings. It is a special district based on NW 52nd Street in Coral Springs, and its 11 wells draw from both the Biscayne Aquifer and the brackish Floridan Aquifer. Since its 2023 expansion the plant runs nanofiltration and reverse osmosis side by side and can make 10 million gallons a day. North Springs also serves the area north of Wiles Road in neighboring Coral Springs.

The City of Coconut Creek supplies the east side, including Parkland Terraces, Mayfair, Mill Run, Parkwood, Whittier Oaks, Lakes at Parkland and Parkland Place. Coconut Creek doesn't treat water itself. It buys finished water from Broward County's District 2A plant in Pompano Beach, which lime-softens and filters Biscayne Aquifer water, and it takes delivery through a connection at Wiles Road.

Parkland Utilities, Inc. serves the original Parkland Lakes area and the town center: Cypresshead, The Mews, Cypress Cay, Parkside Estates, The Falls at Parkland and Parkland Town Center. Private wells remain common on the acreage streets, where North Springs reaches only a small section of The Ranches and Pine Tree Estates isn't on any of the three utility lists.

Parkland Utilities was set up in 1975 by the developer of the Parkland Lakes planned unit development and began serving customers in 1981. The developer's partners spun it off in 1993, and its operating staff bought it in 2009. Despite the name, it has never belonged to the City, and the City has no say over it. The Florida Public Service Commission regulates its rates and customer service, and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection oversees water quality.

It is a small system. Its 2025 annual report to the Public Service Commission lists about 1,265 metered customers, two Biscayne Aquifer wells that take turns, and a 0.58 million-gallon-a-day plant that treats with lime, aeration and filtration. In 2025 it also bought roughly 19 million gallons from Palm Beach County through an emergency interconnection, close to a fifth of everything it delivered, so some months its customers drink a blend.

Small utilities like this one weren't all included in EPA's latest nationwide PFAS testing, and its yearly water quality report isn't online. If you haven't received a copy, ask the utility for one. We'll put that report next to a reading from your own sink before recommending anything, and for PFAS a certified lab test is the only firm answer.

EPA adopted limits of 4 parts per trillion each for PFOS and PFOA in 2024, with compliance due in 2029; the agency has proposed giving utilities until 2031. Of the three utilities here, the Coconut Creek supply is the one above that line, at 24 to 27 ppt PFOS in its two EPA samples. Broward County has hired engineers to design nanofiltration for its District 2A plant and is aiming for April 2029, so the water reaching Parkland Terraces, Mill Run and the other east-side streets should change, but not soon.

North Springs reported no detectable PFAS in its 2023 EPA sampling, which is what you'd expect from a plant with membranes rated to remove very small molecules. Homes there have less reason to buy a system for PFAS alone.

For everyone else, an under-sink reverse osmosis system is the practical answer, because nearly all the PFAS a household takes in from tap water comes through drinking and cooking, not showers or laundry. A five-stage unit is designed to reduce PFOS and PFOA along with lead and chromium-6.

On a well, you are the water utility. Nobody tests the water for you, and no plant has softened or disinfected it. Biscayne Aquifer water usually comes up hard, often carries dissolved iron that turns rust-orange once it meets air, and can smell of sulfur where the groundwater holds little oxygen. Septic systems, animals and fertilizer can all reach a well, and the Florida Department of Health recommends testing for bacteria and nitrate every year.

Treatment follows the test. Iron and sulfur are handled by a filter built for them, placed ahead of a softener so the resin isn't fouled. Bacteria call for UV sterilization, which treats water as it flows past a lamp without adding chemicals. Some well owners also add an under-sink RO for drinking water. We quote well systems only after testing, because iron levels vary a lot from one lot to the next.

North Springs homes start with water that has already been through membranes. Hardness and byproducts are low, and PFAS wasn't detected, so the usual complaint is the chloramine taste. A whole-house carbon tank is often the only upgrade worth paying for, and we'll tell you if your reading says you can skip the softener.

Coconut Creek customers get lime-softened County water with PFOS above the 2029 limit, more disinfection byproducts and leftover hardness. Here the order is reverse osmosis for drinking water first, then carbon for the showers, then a softener if the test shows enough hardness to scale the water heater.

Parkland Utilities customers also drink lime-softened Biscayne water, sometimes blended with Palm Beach County water. Since its PFAS status hasn't been published, we usually suggest RO for the kitchen and decide on carbon and softening from your test. Well owners follow their own sequence: test, then iron and sulfur control, softening and UV as needed.

Parkland had just 3,558 residents in 1990, so the great majority of today's homes were built after that. The timing helps: the federal ban on lead solder took effect in 1986, so most houses here were plumbed without it. The homes worth a closer look are the earliest ones, around the Parkland Lakes development and the original ranch properties. For those, our certified lab lead test is free; the sample to send is the first water out of the tap in the morning.

Large homes bring their own considerations. Houses with three or more bathrooms, a pool and big irrigation zones need a softener and carbon tank sized for the flow, and irrigation is usually left on untreated water to save salt and media. Many communities also have HOA rules about outdoor equipment, so we plan where the tanks go before installation day.

We begin with a free water test at your kitchen sink: hardness in grains per gallon, chloramine, dissolved solids, pH and iron, read while you watch. PFAS and bacteria need a certified lab, so we pair your reading with your utility's published results or arrange lab work for a well.

In most homes the installation is finished on the day we arrive. Softeners use Fleck or Clack valves, covered for 5 years, on tanks covered for 10, and 10% crosslink resin, which holds up better in chloramine water. After that, the same local team handles filter and membrane changes, carbon replacement and softener salt delivery across 33067, 33073 and 33076, and when you call, a person who knows your system picks up.