PFAS & Water Quality in Orlando, FL

Where Orlando's drinking water comes from

Central Florida, Orlando included, tends to lean heavily on the Floridan aquifer, the deep limestone groundwater system that underlies much of the state, rather than on lakes or rivers. Much of the area largely taps that limestone layer through wells rather than pulling from surface water. Which well field and treatment setup serves a given street can differ, so read this as the regional source picture rather than a statement about your particular faucet.

To identify who serves your Orlando address, begin with the system listed above and look up its public contact details and its annual Consumer Confidence Report, which every utility publishes yearly. Because two homes a mile apart can be on different public water systems, the city-wide summary here may not match your tap. One free call to the utility listed above will tell you more than a page of search results ever could. Checking the system tied to a specific address is worth reviewing when evaluating an address.

Orlando water hardness

Drawing on limestone-based groundwater, water across much of central Florida tends toward the harder end, though that's a regional lean and your own supply may not follow it. We don't publish a hardness number for Orlando, since no hardness dataset exists to support one. If your kettle keeps furring up or the dishes come out spotty, a cheap test strip or the hardness line in your utility's yearly report will settle it.

Reading this when you're evaluating a Orlando address

City-level numbers describe the broad pattern around Orlando; two homes a mile apart can sit on different water systems with very different profiles. The address report fills that gap — it identifies the public water system serving a specific property, lists any PFAS detections on that exact system, and maps the nearby industrial and Superfund sources.