Plantation, East ; Central, FL Water Quality
Is Plantation, East ; Central's water safe to drink?
Plantation, East ; Central has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 85,496 people get their water from it, across 28,611 connections.
Plantation, East ; Central's record against the rest of the country
Plantation, East ; Central has 38 violations on record in total, 2 of them health-based - ranking it 5,988th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 54th percentile nationally.
How Plantation, East ; Central compares within FL
Among the 482 FL systems in this dataset, the average is 4.5 health-based violations - Plantation, East ; Central's 2 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Plantation, East ; Central is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2003-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Plantation, East ; Central's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what Plantation, East ; Central reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and Plantation, East ; Central's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,988th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.