Umatilla, FL water quality
Umatilla is served by a patchwork of municipal connections and private wells, both drawing on the Floridan Aquifer. Hardness runs high throughout, with well-fed pockets showing more iron and sulfur than city-served streets.
Scored from published utility reports — legally compliant water can still score high.
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Your Umatilla score is 59/100 — see what it is at your address.
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Contaminant panel
What's actually in Umatilla water.
USGS groundwater context · reviewed July 29, 2026
Hardness
Soft < 3 gpg
High across both city-served and well-served homes.
No public source — private wells are not tested by any agency. EPA SDWIS
Chlorine
EPA MRDL 4 ppm
Municipal disinfection residual in served areas.
No public source — private wells are not tested by any agency. EPA SDWIS
Iron
EPA SMCL 0.3 ppm
More prevalent in well-fed pockets.
No public source — private wells are not tested by any agency. EPA SDWIS
Sulfur / Hydrogen Sulfide
EPA SMCL <0.05 ppm
Occasional odor complaints from private wells at the edges.
No public source — private wells are not tested by any agency. EPA SDWIS
Trihalomethanes
EPA MCL 80 ppb
Disinfection byproduct in city-served zones.
No public source — private wells are not tested by any agency. EPA SDWIS
Your street, not just your city
Which Umatilla neighborhood are you in?
Enter your full address and we'll name your subdivision and the exact water system that serves it. Contaminant testing is only published at the utility level, so the numbers are the same — the geography is yours.
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Neighborhoods
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2 recognized Umatilla communities and subdivisions, ranked worst to best. Tap one for its profile.
Neighborhood profile
Lake Umatilla Estates
Umatilla, FL · City / well mix
- Hardness
- High
- Chlorine
- Moderate
Lake Umatilla Estates (built 1980s-2000s, ~350 homes) is served by the municipal system; hardness is the dominant complaint, with softener use common and occasional discoloration in older sections of the neighborhood.
- Built 1980s-2000s~350 homes32784
How we score a Umatilla 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 Umatilla community names come from
Umatilla 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 Umatilla 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
Private well (no public water system)
Homes here draw directly from the Floridan Aquifer through a private well. Private wells are not regulated, not treated, and not tested by any agency — there is no CCR for this address because no one is required to produce one.
Maintenance
Last reviewed July 29, 2026
CCRs publish annually. We re-check every page against the current report. Full methodology.
What happens next
The free test, exactly as it works.
We're testing homes in Umatilla now
Book a slot and a technician brings a full field kit to your kitchen sink — hardness, chlorine, iron, TDS and pH, measured on site.
About 20 minutes, start to finish
You get your numbers written down and compared against your utility's own published report. Nothing is installed on the test visit.
A recommendation, not a hard close
If filtration makes sense, you get a fixed written price and financing options. If it doesn't, we'll tell you that too.
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Straight answers
Before you call anyone in Umatilla.
Need is the wrong word: your Umatilla utility 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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