Who supplies your water depends on where you live
| Area | Supplier | Treatment plant |
|---|---|---|
| Most of Coconut Creek (and parts of Parkland in the city's service area) | City of Coconut Creek, buying treated water from Broward County Water and Wastewater Services | Broward County District 2A Water Treatment Plant, Pompano Beach |
| South of Coconut Creek Parkway | City of Margate | Margate Water Treatment Plant, 980 NW 66th Avenue |
Coconut Creek's Water Services page tells residents south of Coconut Creek Parkway to contact the City of Margate at 954-972-6454, and Margate's Utilities Division page confirms it serves a portion of Coconut Creek. Your water bill shows which one you have.
How the arrangement works
The City of Coconut Creek explains that it contracts with Broward County to buy water at a sale-for-resale rate. The County handles treatment; the city installs, maintains and upgrades everything that carries the water to you, including two storage tanks, treatment booster stations, about 286 miles of pipe, 1,900 fire hydrants and 5,500 valves. Broward County sets the water rates based on usage and reserved capacity.
So if you have a question about how the water is treated, it is a Broward County question. If you have a leak, low pressure or discolored water, it is a Coconut Creek question.
That split is useful in practice. Treatment decisions (disinfectant, softening, fluoride practice) are made at the County plant, and the County's online Water Quality Report gives the district-by-district detail. Day-to-day service, hydrant flushing, backflow testing and the city's Lead Service Line Inventory are run by Coconut Creek's Utilities and Engineering Department at 5295 Johnson Road.
How District 2A treats the water
Broward County's 2025 Water Quality Report describes the process for its plants:
- Groundwater from the Biscayne Aquifer, which the County says lies 50 to 200 feet underground.
- Softening with lime and ferric chloride to reduce hardness and color.
- Filtration to remove remaining particles.
- Disinfection with chlorine and ammonia, which form chloramines; a residual is kept throughout the pipes.
In 2025, FDEP identified 13 potential contamination sources for the 2A system, with low to moderate susceptibility.
Lime softening raises the pH so hardness minerals settle out as solids; ferric chloride helps remove color, which is common in South Florida groundwater. The result is water that has been softened to a degree before it ever reaches Coconut Creek's pipes, which is why most homes here do not need a household softener.
What Coconut Creek's 2025 report shows
- Chloramines: monthly results from 1.77 to 4.26 ppm, with no MRDL violation.
- Disinfection byproducts: TTHM at 21 ppb and HAA5 at 7.8 ppb, well under limits of 80 and 60.
- Sodium: 26.5 ppm (July 2023).
- Fluoride: 0.857 ppm (July 2023). See fluoride in Coconut Creek for how Florida's 2025 law applies.
- Sampling: city workers collect water samples from 60 locations each month, and independent labs test them.
Those figures describe the system as a whole. Your tap can differ a little depending on how far you are from a storage tank or booster station, how long water sits in your plumbing, and the age of your fixtures. A home test fills that gap.
What fits a Coconut Creek home
- Single-family home: a whole-home city water system to reduce chloramine at every tap, often with under-sink alkaline RO.
- Condo or townhome: under-sink RO. See the best drinking water system for a Coconut Creek home.
- Business near Lyons Road or Sample Road: an ion-exchange softening plant where equipment needs scale protection, after testing.
- Irrigation or private well: see well water in Coconut Creek.
Coconut Creek has many lakes and canals, and plenty of communities irrigate common areas from them. That water is separate from what comes out of your faucets, but it explains a lot of the orange stains and odd smells people notice outside. See iron stains and sulfur smells.
Every Coconut Creek topic
Systems: whole-home filtration, water softeners, under-sink RO, drinking water systems, softener vs. filter.
Problems: chlorine and chloramine, rotten-egg smell, orange stains, hard water spots, dry skin after showering, PFAS, fluoride, well water.
Costs: filtration, reverse osmosis, softener. Testing: home water testing.
Book a free test
Call, text or WhatsApp Jorge at (305) 793-5974. He tests at your tap, tells you whether your results look like County District 2A water or Margate water, explains them in plain words, and recommends a system only if it fits. Living Water offers financing through its financing partners; you apply with a credit application, and a co-applicant can apply with you.
City contacts: Utilities and Engineering, 954-973-6786 (also listed for Spanish help with the report); utility billing, 954-973-6732; after hours, 954-973-6742.
https://www.coconutcreek.gov/residents/water-services/water-services
https://www.coconutcreek.gov/residents/water-management/water-quality
https://www.coconutcreek.gov/docs/default-source/uedocs/water-quality-report/water-quality-report-2025-ccr.pdf
https://www.broward.org/waterservices/WaterQualityReport
https://www.margatefl.com/278/Utilities-Division
Updated 2026-10-17 · Living Waters · Jorge Canela, Water Quality Specialist