Water in Coral Springs, FL

Coral Springs Water Needs Improvement

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Is Coral Springs water safe to drink? Contaminants in drinking water may be below legal limits, but legal water isn’t always safe water. In fact, recent federal tests have revealed the presence of harmful materials flowing to taps all over Coral Springs.

In what follows, we’ll discuss:

Where Coral Springs gets its water
Which pollutants are present in Coral Springs water, in legal amounts or otherwise
What solution you can implement to keep your family safe and healthy
How Angel Water continues to help homeowners enjoy access to clean water

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Where Does Coral Springs Water Come From?

Like many towns and cities across the U.S., Coral Springs receives its water from a deep aquifer called the Biscayne Aquifer. Deep underground, it exhibits a maximum depth of 145 ft. From the Biscayne Aquifer, water travels to two treatment plants: the City of Coral Springs Water District and the Royal Water Works, both of whom treat drinking water with various cleaning solutions.

Water treatment’s goal is not to remove contaminants. Because genuine water filtration is so expensive, municipalities tend to settle for injecting chlorine into water to sterilize bacteria among other microorganisms. Chlorinating water is generally better than letting it flow straight to local taps, but obviously, this process adds chlorine – a contaminant!

What is Coral Springs’ Water Hardness?

Among the cities with the hardest water in the country, Coral Springs water suffers from a hardness of 298 mg/L. At best, it tastes funny.

For much of the country’s water, “water hardness” is the most immediate problem homeowners have with public groundwater and private wells. If you don’t know how water can be hard, it isn’t really. Hardness refers to the amount of sediment present in the water. This sediment can cause many problems like:

Broken dishwashers
Crusty shower nozzles and faucets
Brittle hair
Itchy skin
Faded clothing

Scientists say that water becomes significantly hard upon reaching 120 mg/L and very hard upon reaching 180 mg/L, so 298 mg/L is pretty extraordinary.

What is Coral Springs’ Water Quality?

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducts regular tests on water sources throughout the country to determine whether any contaminant is above legal limits. Still, the EPA hasn’t updated its standards in decades, so legal limits are definitely not strict enough to guarantee safety.

Addressing the EPA’s shortcomings, a watchdog group called the Environmental Working Group (EWG) holds the same findings to stricter standards that refuse to compromise human health. Highlighting the importance of clean water as well as the presence of pollution, the EWG has detected excess contaminants in Coral Springs’ water.

CONTAMINANT	TOTAL	EWG RECOMMENDED
Arsenic	0.075 ppb	0.004 ppb
Chlorate	542.5 ppb	210 ppb
Hexavalent Chromium	0.220 ppb	0.02 ppb
Haloacetic Acids (HAA9)	38.8 ppb	0.06 ppb
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)	49.4 ppb	0.15 ppb

Keep reading to learn more about these pollutants and the health risks associated with each.

Arsenic

While mining, metal production, fracking and power plants may impact its presence, arsenic occurs naturally in groundwater, and homeowners who access private wells may have more exposure than those who live on public grids. This potent carcinogen can cause bladder, lung and skin cancer.

Chlorate

Like many contaminants, chlorate is a byproduct from water treatment plants. It sterilizes microorganisms, but it can cause damage itself. It impacts thyroid function, which is especially harmful during pregnancy and childhood. If you have a family to keep healthy, you should take special care to avoid chlorate.

Hexavalent Chromium

You may recall this pollutant from Erin Brockovich. Similar to arsenic, it can come from industrial sources, but it also occurs naturally in aquifers. Long-term side effects include stomach cancer, liver damage and delays in the development of skeletal muscles.

Haloacetic Acids (HAA9)

Haloacetic acids come exclusively from treatment plants as byproducts of the cleaning process. Again, these contaminants kill microorganisms, but they’re dangerous in and of themselves. In addition to cancer, haloacetic acids can also have a profound impact on fetal development, causing underdeveloped limbs among other birth defects.

Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)

TTHMs are the other most common byproducts from treatment plants that use chlorine injection. It can cause cancers of the bladder, liver, kidney and intestines. Further side effects include spontaneous miscarriages and heart problems.

Other Contaminants Detected

Though these contaminants are below the EWG’s limits, the organization has still detected other contaminants in Coral Springs water:

Aluminum
Barium
Chromium
Fluoride
Manganese
Molybdenum
Nitrate
Nitrite
Strontium
Vanadium

These contaminants may not exceed limits the EWG and EPA present, but the EWG’s point is that all contamination is unhealthy. To learn more about where each of these contaminants come from, please visit the EWG’s page on the city.

How Can Coral Springs Residents Protect Their Health?

Solutions depend on the water source. Water can come from aquifers or reservoirs, and it can go through treatment plants or come directly from wells, so there’s no one-size-fits-all option.

Whether you live in Florida or not, the first step is to recognize exactly which of these contaminants are flowing to your home. You can’t move forward with an in-house water system until you achieve this.

Here are some practical steps you can take to clean up your water:

Step 1: Water Testing

Above tasting, smelling and seeing, water tests are the only real way to know what’s in your water. Instead of using research to intuit what’s probably in your water, please reach out to us for a comprehensive water test that’ll reveal precisely the contaminants in your home’s water supply. We can point you in the right direction based on the results.

Step 2: Consider an NSF 44-Certified Water Softener

Because Coral Springs is home to some of the hardest water in the country, you’ll likely benefit from an effective, salt-based water softener. To separate sediment from water on a molecular level, water softeners employ a chemical process called ion exchange.

If a water softener is the best option for you, and you’re looking to buy, the main caveat is to remember the important difference between salt-based and salt-free water softeners.

Unlike salt-based water softeners that remove sediment from water, salt-free water softeners don’t soften water. The latter only condition water to keep it from sticking to pipes. All other symptoms will remain.

Though you’ll need to store bags of salt with which to replenish a salt-based water softener, salt-free alternatives are too ineffective to warrant any investment.

PurASoft makes only the best salt-based water softeners that maintain NSF 44 certification, which means that the National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) has conducted extensive testing to guarantee their effectiveness.

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Step 3: Consider an NSF 58-Certified Reverse Osmosis System

If general contaminants are more of a problem for your drinking water than hardness, you’ll benefit the most from an NSF 58-certified reverse osmosis (RO) system. Installing an RO system is a great way to remove the following:

Arsenic
Radium
Germanium
Total Trihalomethanes
Haloacetic Acids
Strontium

The reason these filtration systems are so potent is because their semipermeable membranes are so thin as to allow nothing beyond water. Again, the point is to accomplish filtration on a molecular level. Because RO systems also filter out potentially beneficial minerals, they reinject those minerals back into the water once it passes through the membrane.

If an RO system has NSF 58 certification, it’s endured the same scrutiny as a water softener that’s earned an NSF 44 certification.

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Step 4: Have Your Equipment Professionally Installed and Serviced

The best products can’t perform well without proper installation. Unless you’re a licensed plumber, we strongly discourage attempting it yourself, as the smallest mistake can cause a leak that’ll make you and your family sick. A licensed plumber can make sure your water softener or RO system works efficiently enough to endure for a decade. For you to keep your warranty, certain manufacturers may also require further annual maintenance, so be sure to get the most out of your water system by reaching out to licensed professionals for installation and maintenance.

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Get Better Water in Coral Springs Today!

Hopefully, we’ve educated you on why your water needs improvement. Don’t settle for water full of cleaning solutions and arsenic. There’s no need. Have a professional conduct a preliminary water test to discern which water system will work best for you.

Angel Water has been helping homeowners in Illinois keep water clean for 50 years. We know we can do the same for Florida. Our licensed plumbers would be happy to visit your home and conduct a comprehensive water test that’ll point you toward the right RO system or water softener.

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Would You Like to Know More About Water Quality in Coral Springs?

If you want to understand the quality of the water your family depends on everyday, contact us today. One of our representatives is standing by to help you schedule your free water test. We’ll send one of our local water expert to test the water at your tap and explain common problems and solutions for your specific water composition so that you can rest easy, knowing that your family is drinking the healthiest water possible.