Alafaya, FL water quality
Alafaya draws its water from the Floridan Aquifer via Orange County Utilities. Hardness runs from moderate to very high citywide, and disinfection byproducts along with hardness scale are the most common resident complaints.
Scored from published utility reports — legally compliant water can still score high.
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Contaminant panel
What's actually in Alafaya water.
Orange County Utilities CCR · reviewed July 29, 2026
Hardness
Soft < 3 gpg
Consistently high citywide — scale on fixtures and appliances is the top complaint.
Source: Orange County Utilities 2024 CCR
Chlorine / Chloramine
EPA MRDL 4 ppm
Persistent taste and skin-dryness complaints reported by residents.
Source: Orange County Utilities 2024 CCR
Trihalomethanes
EPA MCL 80 ppb
Disinfection byproduct — levels spike in warmer summer months.
Source: Orange County Utilities 2024 CCR
PFAS / PFOA
EPA MCL 4 ppt
Detected in recent monitoring; varies by service zone and proximity to industrial/airport sites.
Source: Orange County Utilities 2024 CCR
Iron
EPA SMCL 0.3 ppm
Occasional staining reports in older service areas.
Source: Orange County Utilities 2024 CCR
Sediment
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Occasional turbidity from main breaks or flushing.
Source: Orange County Utilities 2024 CCR
Your street, not just your city
Which Alafaya neighborhood are you in?
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Public water system
Who actually supplies Alafaya's water.
Drinking water isn't tested or regulated by neighborhood — it's tested by Public Water System (PWS). One utility pipes the same treated water to dozens of neighborhoods. So "what's the water like in Alafaya" really means "which utility serves Alafaya, and what does that utility's water look like."
Orange County Utilities — West Regional
- PWS ID (EPA SDWIS)
- FL3481546
- Population served
- 206,742 across 34 communities
- Source water
- Floridan Aquifer (groundwater)
EPA compliance status: In compliance. Zero MCL violations on record per EPA ECHO/SDWIS.
Bottom line: Same aquifer and same treatment approach as OCU South, so expect a very similar disinfection-byproduct and arsenic signature. TapWaterData's aggregation flags one contaminant clearly above guideline for this system. Legal water — with a DBP load that reverse osmosis or activated carbon removes almost entirely.
Two different things get called "bad water."
"Exceeds health guideline" means the contaminant is legally fine — below the enforceable limit — but above a stricter, non-enforceable benchmark (EWG's) that some scientists consider safer. Nearly every Florida utility exceeds several of these, because Floridan Aquifer groundwater plus chlorination produces disinfection byproducts.
2 flagged items on this system. Not illegal water. Genuinely useful if you want to filter it out.
What's flagged on the OCU West system
Tap any row for the detail. Values are utility-wide, as published.
Same source water and treatment as OCU South — expect a comparable profile. We do not publish a West-specific number we have not pulled from the CCR.
Legal — above a stricter, non-enforceable health guideline.
Naturally occurring in Floridan Aquifer groundwater.
Legal — above a stricter, non-enforceable health guideline.
This is the single largest system by community count in unincorporated Orange County.
South Apopka is on this county system — not the City of Apopka utility — despite sharing the Apopka name and zip code. It is an unincorporated CDP adjacent to, but not inside, the city, with a documented history of water and infrastructure disparity complaints relative to the city next door.
Neighborhoods and communities served by Orange County Utilities — West Regional
Same treated water, same test results — the difference between these addresses is plumbing age and distance from the plant, not the source.
Neighborhoods
Ranked worst → best.
5 recognized Alafaya communities and subdivisions, ranked worst to best. Tap one for its profile.
Neighborhood profile
Waterford Lakes
Alafaya, FL · City (Orange County Utilities)
- Hardness
- High
- Chlorine
- High
Waterford Lakes (built 1993-2003, ~4600 homes) sits on a service zone with higher chlorine/chloramine residuals; expect noticeable taste and heavier scale buildup on fixtures and water heaters.
- Built 1993-2003~4,600 homes32817
How we score a Alafaya neighborhood
No agency publishes testing per subdivision — it is published per public water system. So the score is a documented model, not a measurement:
- 1Start from the serving utility's own published baseline (hardness plus disinfection-byproduct load from its most recent Consumer Confidence Report).
- 2Add for plumbing era: +8 for pre-1960 housing stock, +4 for 1960s-80s, +2 for 1990s-2000s, +0 for 2010 and newer.
- 3Add for service-zone position: +6 where the subdivision sits at the end of long distribution mains (newer master-planned build-outs), +3 for the oldest downtown mains.
- 4Add for local sources: +12 private or community well, +9 airport/GOAA PFAS influence area, +7 industrial adjacency, +3 golf-corridor irrigation, +2 lakefront shallow-well and iron staining.
- 5Clamp to 30-95, then map to low / moderate / high. Wells get chlorine scored near zero — nothing is disinfecting that water at all.
Where the Alafaya community names come from
Alafaya publishes no official neighborhood map, so these are the recognized subdivision and community names used by the city, USPS mail routes, and local listings.
Data compiled from Alafaya Consumer Confidence Reports and EPA ECHO monitoring. Neighborhood-level readings are estimates based on service zone, plumbing age, and source blending; a free on-site test provides exact numbers for your address.
Water system
Orange County Utilities
County-run system serving most unincorporated Orange County neighborhoods across several separate service areas.
Maintenance
Last reviewed July 29, 2026
CCRs publish annually. We re-check every page against the current report. Full methodology.
Recent incidents
Actual "bad water" events near Alafaya.
Orange County's real-world water problems over the last year have been infrastructure incidents, not contamination events. No countywide contamination event, no lead-in-water crisis, and no system in the county currently shows an active legal (MCL) violation in EPA's ECHO/SDWIS database.
- July 8-13, 2025Resolved
Precautionary boil-water advisory — SR-535 corridor
Orange County Utilities — SR-535 / Palm Parkway area
A contractor struck a water main near SR-535 / S. Apopka-Vineland Rd. / Winter Garden-Vineland Rd. / Palm Parkway. Orange County Utilities issued a precautionary boil-water advisory for the surrounding area. This is standard procedure any time system pressure drops, because low pressure opens a path for bacteria — it does not mean contamination was found. The advisory was lifted after roughly three days once bacteriological testing came back clean, then extended once more into mid-August 2025 during repairs before being fully lifted.
What happens next
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You get your numbers written down and compared against your utility's own published report. Nothing is installed on the test visit.
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Straight answers
Before you call anyone in Alafaya.
Need is the wrong word: Orange County Utilities — West Regional delivers water that meets every enforceable EPA limit. Filtration is about the things those limits don't cover — hardness that scales your fixtures and water heater, chlorine taste and smell, and disinfection byproducts that sit above the stricter (non-enforceable) EWG health guideline. Legal water and water you enjoy drinking aren't the same standard.
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