Water Treatment
Services in
Weston, FL

The Sunrise Utilities Department opens and bills every water account in the city, at 954-746-3232. Leaks, low pressure and other problems in the Indian Trace pipes go to the district at 954-385-2600, which is also its after-hours number. Some websites describe Broward County water zones here, but Sunrise's service-area map puts the whole city in the Sawgrass area, and EPA lists no other public water system serving it.

Much softer than the well water it starts as. In a 2019 trade-journal article, the plant's engineers put the raw water from its wellfields at 265 mg/L of hardness, roughly 15.5 grains. Nanofiltration holds back most of that calcium and magnesium. The plant then mixes some mineral-bearing water back in on purpose, because water stripped too bare can eat at pipes and fixtures. Neither city prints a finished hardness number, and you'll find figures online ranging from 1 to 18 grains, most of them describing raw well water or another city entirely.

So a softener is a decision for your own reading. If the test shows enough hardness to leave white crust on shower glass and scale in a tankless heater, we size one to it; family homes typically land between 48,000 and 64,000 grains of capacity. If it doesn't, you'd be paying for salt to fix nothing, and we'll tell you that. Where a softener does go in, a carbon tank ahead of it keeps chloramine from breaking down the resin. Our water softener installation page has the valves and tank sizes.

The plant disinfects with chloramine, a mix of chlorine and ammonia that holds up over the long run of pipe out to the Everglades edge. It's also the source of that slight swimming-pool smell. For about four weeks each spring Sunrise switches to plain chlorine to clean the system; the 2026 switch ran April 27 to May 25. The notice covers everyone billed by Sunrise, including this city, and aquarium owners need a conditioner that treats both chlorine and chloramine.

Haloacetic acids and trihalomethanes are what you get when disinfectant meets the natural organic matter in Everglades-area groundwater, and the amount grows with the time water spends in the mains. That may explain why the May 2020 readings swung so widely from street to street. A catalytic carbon tank on the incoming line lowers all of it, chloramine, spring chlorine and byproducts, for every shower and faucet in the house. Pitcher filters use plain carbon, which barely touches chloramine. See our whole-house water filtration systems for tank sizes.

Not for PFAS. The 2023 results are about as clean as South Florida gets, and they fit what membranes do: nanofiltration holds back most PFAS, which lime softening doesn't. If PFAS is your only worry, you can skip RO here with a clear conscience.

Chlorate is the better reason to want one. Every 2015 sample from the Indian Trace system was above EPA's 210 ppb screening level, and the September readings topped 1,100 ppb. Membranes can't help with chlorate, because it mostly arrives with the disinfectant, after the water has already passed through them. Our under-sink reverse osmosis system is a five-stage, NSF/ANSI-certified unit designed to reduce chlorate, chromium-6, lead and leftover byproducts in the water you drink and cook with. None of these results breaks a federal rule, so RO here is a preference you choose, and we'll say so.

Most of the city was plumbed after the solder ban. Lead solder was banned from drinking water plumbing in 1986, and the bulk of the city, Savanna among it, went up in the 1990s and 2000s. The exceptions are on the east side. Bonaventure's condo buildings date from the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the first Country Isles and Windmill Ranch homes were finished in 1984.

Older units get the free lab test. We take a first-draw sample, the water that sat in your pipes overnight, and a certified lab tests it free. District-wide results are low, but they can't vouch for your kitchen faucet. If yours comes back high, RO or a lead-certified filter at that tap fixes it.

Condos and townhomes. Treating a whole condo unit means reaching a supply line that serves only that unit and getting the association's sign-off. Under-sink RO sidesteps both, since it lives in the kitchen cabinet.

Our free water test is a 20-minute visit to your kitchen sink. We check grains of hardness, chloramine level, TDS, pH and iron, and walk through the numbers next to the Sawgrass and Indian Trace results above. Older homes add the lab lead test at no cost.

Installation is usually the same day, about 2–4 hours for a single tank and 4–6 for three stages, and the warranty covers the control valve for 5 years and the tank for 10. Afterward our own crew does the filter and membrane changes and, for softener owners, salt delivery. Calls go to our own office.