Tap water · FL
JEA
EPA system ID FL2161328 · serves about 826,664 people. Every US utility must publish an annual water quality report — here’s the official one (2025), and below it, our plain-English translation.
Read the official report →What JEA found in 2025
21 detected analytes from the utility’s own annual report, hand-normalized — 6 were near or over a limit (flagged below).
| Detected | Level | Limit | % of limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Odor (threshold odor number) (highest of multiple sources) | 56.6 threshold odor number | 3 threshold odor number | 1887% | Over limit |
| Total Dissolved Solids (highest of multiple sources) | 864 ppm | 500 ppm | 173% | Over limit |
| Chloride | 319 ppm | 250 ppm | 128% | Over limit |
| Sulfate | 278 ppm | 250 ppm | 111% | Over limit |
| TTHM [Total Trihalomethanes] (highest of multiple sources) | 70.78 ppb | 80 ppb | 88% | Near limit |
| Copper (90th percentile) (highest of multiple sources) | 1.04 ppm | 1.3 ppm | 80% | Near limit |
| Sodium (highest of multiple sources) | 126.43 ppm | 160 ppm | 79% | Within limit |
| Radium 226+228 or combined radium (highest of multiple sources) | 2.56 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L | 51% | Within limit |
| Alpha emitters (highest of multiple sources) | 7.24 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L | 48% | Within limit |
| Haloacetic Acids (five) (HAA5) (highest of multiple sources) | 24.5 ppb | 60 ppb | 41% | Within limit |
| Chlorine (highest of multiple sources) | 1.4 ppm | 4 ppm | 35% | Within limit |
| Fluoride (highest of multiple sources) | 1.25 ppm | 4 ppm | 31% | Within limit |
| Lead (90th percentile) (highest of multiple sources) | 3.19 ppb | 15 ppb | 21% | Within limit |
| Lead (point of entry) (highest of multiple sources) | 2.65 ppb | 15 ppb | 18% | Within limit |
| Selenium (highest of multiple sources) | 6.16 ppb | 50 ppb | 12% | Within limit |
| Arsenic | 0.9 ppb | 10 ppb | 9% | Within limit |
| Antimony | 0.53 ppb | 6 ppb | 9% | Within limit |
| Cyanide | 11 ppb | 200 ppb | 6% | Within limit |
| Barium (highest of multiple sources) | 0.038 ppm | 2 ppm | 2% | Within limit |
| Nitrate (as Nitrogen) | 0.107 ppm | 10 ppm | 1% | Within limit |
| Chromium | 0.893 ppb | 100 ppb | 1% | Within limit |
Levels and limits are as printed in the utility’s report (“limit” is the EPA MCL, action level, residual limit, or secondary guideline that applies to that row; “ND” = not detected). Utilities publish these reports annually — we re-check every covered utility each July, after the federal publication deadline. Detected doesn’t mean dangerous — most detections sit far below their limits. This is education, not medical advice.
Your tap, if it were a bottle
How JEA water stacks up against the bottled aisle
Same minerals, same units — the tap values below come from the utility’s report, placed next to the closest match in our bottled-water database.
| Mineral | Your tap | Closest bottled match |
|---|---|---|
| Total dissolved solids | 864 mg/L | San Pellegrino at 985 mg/L |
| Sodium | 126.4 mg/L | Gerolsteiner at 116 mg/L |
| Sulfate | 278 mg/L | Rozana at 230 mg/L |
| Chloride | 319 mg/L | St-Yorre at 322 mg/L |
Tap values are the headline levels from the utility’s annual report (often a highest or average figure); bottled values are label- or report-derived. A closest match is a numeric comparison, not an equivalence or an endorsement.
Zip codes covered
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Boundary zips partially served by other systems are deliberately unlisted — check your exact zip.