Water Filtration & Treatment in Plantation

One city, one utility

Unlike neighboring Davie, where several utilities split the town, Plantation residents and businesses get water and sewer service from the City of Plantation Utilities Department. The city's 2025 Water Quality Report lists a service population of more than 96,000 and an average daily demand of about 11 million gallons. The department runs a laboratory certified under the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC), and the report says it ran more than 24,000 water analyses in 2025.

Questions about the report go to the Utilities Department at 954-797-2209; billing is 954-797-2290. The report is published in English and Spanish.

From aquifer to tap

1. Wells. Sixteen wells reach about 110 feet into the Biscayne Aquifer. The city notes the well fields are designed to blend into the parks where they sit.
2. Pretreatment. A scale inhibitor is blended in and cartridge filters stop particles larger than 5 microns.
3. Membranes. Thin film composite membranes reject hardness minerals such as calcium and magnesium, plus color and odor compounds. Both plants were converted entirely to nanofiltration in 1998.
4. Degasification. Water cascades over plastic media to strip hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, which removes odor and controls pH.
5. Disinfection. A small amount of chlorine and ammonia is added so the water stays protected in storage and pipes.

What the 2025 report shows

• Disinfectant: chlorine and chloramines averaged 2.27 ppm, ranging from 0.60 to 3.40, below the 4.0 maximum.
• Fluoride: the city stopped adding fluoride on July 1, 2025, under Florida's Senate Bill 700; trace natural fluoride may still appear.
• PFAS: UCMR 5 sampling, completed in 2024, found all PFAS and lithium below the minimum reporting level.
• Lead service lines: the city reports none, and no galvanized lines requiring replacement.
• Sodium: 14 ppm.

What fits a Plantation home

Plantation stretches from older single-story homes in the east, built in the city's early decades, to newer gated communities and the large lots of Plantation Acres on the west side, where a separate improvement district handles drainage. Older homes may have aging fixtures and water heaters that affect taste and odor at the tap; larger lots are more likely to irrigate from a well. Same city water, different questions, which is why the test happens at your house.

• Single-family home: a whole-home system for chloramine at every tap, often with under-sink alkaline RO at the kitchen sink.
• Condo, townhouse or apartment: under-sink RO is usually the practical choice.
• Business: restaurants, gyms, laundries and offices may still want commercial softening where a test shows it helps equipment.
• Property with an irrigation well: see orange stains and well water treatment.

Common questions Plantation homeowners ask

• How do I get rid of the chlorine taste?
• Why does my hot water smell like eggs?
• Why do I still get spots if the city softens water?
• Can water make showers feel harsh?
• What about PFAS? and fluoride?
• Do I need a softener or a filter?
• What drives filtration cost, RO cost and softener cost
• What is the best drinking water system?
• How does the free home test work?

Where Plantation's water is protected

Each year the Florida Department of Environmental Protection reviews potential sources of contamination near public supply wells. Its 2025 assessment of Plantation's 16 wells identified 16 potential sources, mostly with low to moderate susceptibility and one rated high. The city points out that these ratings describe nearby activity, not sample results. Full details are on FDEP's Source Water Assessment and Protection Program site.

The city's PFAS page explains why it relies on membranes: nanofiltration has been its main treatment since the 1990s, and the city says it continues regular monitoring of the PFAS compounds the EPA lists.

What filtration is, and is not, for

Plantation's water is treated to meet drinking water standards, and the 2025 report says it met or exceeded federal and state requirements. Home treatment does not replace any of that. It lets you choose how water tastes and smells at home, and it can protect equipment where a test shows a real need. For any specific contaminant, a system must be certified for that contaminant under the relevant NSF/ANSI standard; check the exact model's listing.

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