Water Filtration & Treatment in Lauderhill

Lauderhill's water at a glance

The annual Water Quality Report is posted on the City's Water Quality Report page, with editions back to 2021. For help in Spanish or Kreyol, the 2025 report lists 954-730-4225.

What the 2025 Water Quality Report shows

• Disinfectant: listed as chlorine, with a highest running annual average of 2.6 ppm and individual results from 1.0 to 3.7, under the 4.0 limit.
• Disinfection byproducts: TTHM at 40.78 ppb and HAA5 at 31.78 ppb, under their limits of 80 and 60.
• Fluoride: 0.61 to 0.67 ppm in samples from February and April 2025.
• Sodium: 20.4 ppm.
• Color: the report notes a violation of the secondary standard for color, 20 color units against a standard of 15, from naturally occurring organics. Secondary standards cover aesthetics such as appearance, not health effects.

That last item is a very Lauderhill detail. If your water ever looks faintly yellow or tea-tinted in a white tub, that is the kind of thing the color standard measures. Activated carbon in a whole-home or drinking water system is commonly used for taste, odor and organic color; Jorge can show you what your tap looks like next to filtered water.

Lead, service lines and the 2026 projects

The City's lead service line inventory shows no lead service lines in its system. In 2025 tap sampling, the 90th percentile lead result was 8.0 ppb, under the 15 ppb action level, though four individual samples were above it. Lead usually comes from older home plumbing and fixtures, so the City recommends flushing your tap before drinking and points to filters certified to reduce lead. If that matters to you, check the exact model's NSF/ANSI 53 or 58 listing for lead.

For 2026, the report lists an emergency generator and high service pump upgrades at the plant, West Treatment Plant accelerator improvements, water service line replacements, and water main interconnects with Broward County and the City of Plantation for emergencies.

Fluoride and PFAS

The 2025 report describes the treated water as fluoridated. Separately, Florida's SB 700, effective July 1, 2025, prohibits additives to public water that are not for the explicit purpose of improving water quality. Ask the City for its current practice; see fluoride filters in Lauderhill.

Under unregulated contaminant monitoring, the report lists PFAS results from August and October 2025 ranging from not detected to 35 ng/L. See PFAS filters in Lauderhill for how to read that and which certifications matter.

Why the test starts with the disinfectant

Every water utility has to keep a disinfectant residual in its pipes, and it shapes most of what people notice at home: the smell when you run a bath, the taste of tap water in coffee, the way it reacts with filter media. Lauderhill's report lists the residual as chlorine, at levels from 1.0 to 3.7 ppm across the year, but it does not say whether that is free chlorine or chlorine combined with ammonia. That difference matters when you choose a filter, because chloramine needs catalytic carbon or similar media and longer contact time. Jorge measures both free and total chlorine at your tap before recommending anything, so the equipment matches your water instead of a guess.

What fits a Lauderhill home

• Single-family home in Inverrary or along the canals: a whole-home city water system for disinfectant taste and odor at every tap, often with under-sink alkaline RO in the kitchen.
• Condo or apartment: under-sink RO is usually the practical choice, since the building controls the main line.
• Restaurant, salon, laundry or gym: an ion-exchange softening plant where equipment needs scale protection, after testing. See water softeners in Lauderhill.
• Property with an irrigation or private well: treatment configured from that well's test. See well water in Lauderhill.

Every Lauderhill topic, and how to book

Systems: whole-home filtration, water softeners, under-sink RO, best drinking water system, 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.

Call, text or WhatsApp Jorge at (305) 793-5974. He tests at your tap, explains the results 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.

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