Water Filtration & Treatment in Doral

Doral's water at a glance

How Doral's water is treated

Doral sits entirely north of SW 8 Street, the line WASD uses to describe its service areas. Water there generally comes from two county plants that both draw from the Biscayne Aquifer:

• Hialeah Water Treatment Plant: lime treatment to reduce hardness, filtration, disinfection, and air stripping to remove volatile organic compounds.
• John E. Preston Water Treatment Plant: its source water carries more naturally occurring organic material, so it uses enhanced softening, then air stripping towers. WASD notes this also reduced the yellow tint once present in Preston water.

Both plants feed a common distribution system that runs through most of the county.

Why Doral sometimes smells more like chlorine

WASD normally disinfects with chloramine. Periodically it switches to free chlorine for about two weeks while it flushes lines across the county. The City of Doral shared one of these notices for September 9 to 22, 2024, and told residents they might notice a chlorine taste or odor during the change.

If you have ever noticed your water smelling stronger for a couple of weeks and then going back to normal, that is likely why. A filter designed for both chlorine and chloramine handles either. Living Water describes its Puronics whole-home systems as removing both. See the chloramine filter guide.

Doral's mix of homes and businesses

Doral combines residential communities of condos, townhomes and single-family homes with a large business district of offices, warehouses, restaurants and gyms near Miami International Airport. Fits vary:

• Condo: under-sink alkaline RO inside your unit.
• Townhome or single-family home: a whole-home system, often with RO in the kitchen. Check HOA rules for outdoor equipment.
• Office or gym: RO for drinking water stations and break rooms.
• Restaurant, hotel or laundry: an ion-exchange softening plant to protect equipment from scale. See water softeners in Doral.

What filtration can and cannot do in Doral

It helps to be clear about the goal before you compare systems:

• Can do: reduce chlorine and chloramine taste and odor, improve the taste of drinking and cooking water, and, with a softener, cut scale where hardness is high.
• Cannot do: fix problems in the utility system, or replace the testing WASD does every year.
• Depends on the model: reduction of any specific contaminant. A system has to be certified for that contaminant under the relevant NSF/ANSI standard, so check the exact model's listing rather than a general claim.

Jorge keeps recommendations tied to what your test actually shows.

Using water wisely in dry seasons

In February 2026 the South Florida Water Management District issued a water shortage warning for Miami-Dade County as Biscayne Aquifer levels dropped. The City of Doral passed it along and asked residents to conserve voluntarily, with no mandatory restrictions at that time. If water use matters to you, ask about it before you buy: softeners use water to regenerate and RO systems send some water to the drain. Jorge can explain how each option uses water.

Your free Doral water test, and where to go next

1. Call, text or WhatsApp Jorge at (305) 793-5974 to pick a time.
2. He tests water from your tap at home, or at your business.
3. He explains the results in plain words.
4. He recommends a system only if it fits, with no obligation. Homes on a private well get a recommendation configured from the well's test; see well water systems.

Explore the Doral pages and nearby areas:

• Whole-home water filtration in Doral
• Water softeners in Doral
• Under-sink reverse osmosis in Doral
• What drives water filtration cost in Doral
• Home water testing in Doral

Jorge also serves neighboring Miami and Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, and the rest of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

Updated 2026-10-17 · Living Waters · Jorge Canela, Water Quality Specialist