Tap water · FL
Tampa Water Department
EPA system ID FL6290327 · serves about 733,886 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 Tampa Water Department found in 2025
15 detected analytes from the utility’s own annual report, hand-normalized — 1 was near or over a limit (flagged below).
| Detected | Level | Limit | % of limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine and Chloramines | 3.6 ppm | 4 ppm | 90% | Near limit |
| Bromate | 3.979 ppb | 10 ppb | 40% | Within limit |
| Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | 21.44 ppb | 60 ppb | 36% | Within limit |
| Sodium | 51 ppm | 160 ppm | 32% | Within limit |
| Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM) | 19 ppb | 80 ppb | 24% | Within limit |
| Copper (tap water) (highest of multiple sources) | 0.287 ppm | 1.3 ppm | 22% | Within limit |
| Fluoride | 0.56 ppm | 4 ppm | 14% | Within limit |
| Radium 226 + 228 or combined radium | 0.6 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L | 12% | Within limit |
| Alpha emitters (Including Uranium) | 1.6 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L | 11% | Within limit |
| Lead (tap water) (highest of multiple sources) | 1.5 ppb | 15 ppb | 10% | Within limit |
| Nitrate | 0.29 ppm | 10 ppm | 3% | Within limit |
| Barium | 0.011 ppm | 2 ppm | 1% | Within limit |
| Total organic carbon | 2.43 ppm | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluoropentanoic acid (PFPeA) | 0.004 ppb | — | — | No federal limit |
| Perfluorobutanesulfonic acid (PFBS) | 0.003 ppb | — | — | No federal 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 Tampa Water Department 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium | 51 mg/L | Ferrarelle at 50 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
33602 · 33603 · 33604 · 33605 · 33606 · 33607 · 33609 · 33611 · 33612 · 33614 · 33616 · 33629
Boundary zips partially served by other systems are deliberately unlisted — check your exact zip.