Skip to content

City water profile

Water hardness in Homestead

Find official utility reports, understand hardness, and check the water system serving your home in Homestead, Florida.

Utility-reported hardness

Not yet available

Check your provider and source →
State comparison
27 PPM below
Evidence comparison rank
#19 of 19
Matched utilities
2
Active health records
0

Your tap water

What does the utility report?

Match the utility name to your water bill. These results describe the utility’s water, not a test at your home. A ZIP can include several water systems.

Utility hardness unavailable in this index

Nearby river or groundwater samples cannot tell us the hardness coming out of your tap. Ask your water provider for total hardness as CaCO₃, or test it at home.

Find an official utility report →
Convert a hardness result →Test your tap →

Match the name on your water bill

Your utility’s measurements and compliance records

These are possible serving systems. A record for one system does not apply to every home in this ZIP. Confirm your provider before interpreting a measurement or notice. Federal records can lag current utility notices.

EPA snapshot: 2026Q2. Historical window begins Jan 1, 2021.

Homestead, City Of

FL4130645 · Groundwater · 80,000 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

Find this utility’s official report →
Measurements (1)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
0.0025 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

17% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 1, 2025

Violation history (15)
Imported violation history for Homestead, City Of
RuleStatusPeriod
Revised Total Coliform RuleArchivedDec 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024
E. COLIArchivedSep 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024
Revised Total Coliform RuleArchivedSep 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2024
Revised Total Coliform RuleResolvedNov 1, 2023 to Nov 30, 2023
E. COLIResolvedNov 1, 2023 to Nov 30, 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)ArchivedOct 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023
TTHMArchivedOct 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023
TTHMArchivedJul 1, 2023 to Sep 30, 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)ArchivedJul 1, 2023 to Sep 30, 2023
Consumer Confidence RuleResolvedJul 1, 2023 to Apr 10, 2024
E. COLIResolvedMay 1, 2023 to May 31, 2023
Revised Total Coliform RuleResolvedMay 1, 2023 to May 31, 2023
TTHMArchivedApr 1, 2023 to Jun 30, 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)ArchivedApr 1, 2023 to Jun 30, 2023
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts RuleAddressedOct 2, 2007

Rex Utilities Inc/redavo

FL4131206 · Groundwater · 350 people served system-wide

The system names this served city; Census place overlap links the city to this ZCTA.

No active health-based record in this imported snapshot

Find this utility’s official report →
Measurements (2)

An action level is a regulatory trigger, not a pass/fail health boundary. A reported zero is the value in the source record and does not establish that lead is absent at your tap.

Lead (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Below action level
Reported level
4.0e-4 mg/L
Action level
0.015 mg/L

3% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2025 to Dec 1, 2025

Copper (90th percentile)

EPA SDWIS Lead and Copper Rule samples

Above action level
Reported level
1.5258 mg/L
Action level
1.3 mg/L

117% of the listed benchmark

Monitoring period: Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 1, 2023

Violation history (7)
Imported violation history for Rex Utilities Inc/redavo
RuleStatusPeriod
Consumer Confidence RuleUnaddressedJul 1, 2024
Lead and Copper RuleUnaddressedJan 1, 2024
Revised Total Coliform RuleArchivedOct 1, 2023 to Oct 31, 2023
Consumer Confidence RuleUnaddressedJul 1, 2023
TTHMArchivedJan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)ArchivedJan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2023
Lead and Copper RuleUnaddressedJul 1, 2018

City summary

What the indexed records say

Homestead has 3 published ZIP profiles across Miami-Dade County. The regional-evidence median is 255 PPM. Its comparison-eligible median is 255 PPM versus 282 PPM statewide.

Among the 19 Floridacities meeting the comparison standard, Homestead ranks #19from highest to lowest. Across all 603 state ZIP profiles, available estimates run from 135to 816.5 PPM.

The 255–256 PPM range shows how much the available ZIP estimates vary within the city label.

Hardness distribution

How local ZIP estimates compare

Soft0 ZIPs
Moderately hard0 ZIPs
Hard0 ZIPs
Very hard3 ZIPs

3 of 3 ZIP profiles have a hardness estimate. Bars count ZIP profiles, not households or laboratory samples.

Evidence quality

Distance, dates, and confidence

Median nearest distance
1.6 miles
Profiles with evidence
3/3

Confidence labels

High: 0Moderate: 3Low: 0

Observation window: Jun 6, 2016 to Mar 23, 2023.

ZIP directory

Water reports in Homestead

Open a ZIP for site-level provenance and measurements.

ZIP code

33030

Very Hard

255 PPM

Nearest site
1.6 mi
Confidence
Moderate

View full ZIP evidence →

ZIP code

33033

Very Hard

256 PPM

Nearest site
0.6 mi
Confidence
Moderate

View full ZIP evidence →

ZIP code

33035

Very Hard

255 PPM

Nearest site
1.9 mi
Confidence
Moderate

View full ZIP evidence →

Practical next steps

Move from index to evidence

  1. 1. Open your ZIP. Check distance, dates, confidence, and the associated utility.
  2. 2. Read the current CCR. Confirm source water, detections, limits, ranges, and notices.
  3. 3. Use a measured hardness result. Confirm health concerns or treatment sizing with the right method.

Questions people ask

About water in Homestead

Is the water hard?

Check the utility-reported result above when available. Nearby environmental samples cannot establish tap-water hardness. Ask your provider or test your tap.

Is the tap water safe?

Compliance history is utility-wide and cannot guarantee conditions at every tap. Check current notices and test when address-specific evidence is needed.

Do I need treatment?

Choose treatment only after confirming the problem at the property. A softener targets hardness; contaminant treatment requires a matching, verified performance claim.