Public water system record
Clearwater Water System
Serves Clearwater, Pinellas County, FL · 115,000 people served
Federal records show no health-based violations and 7 monitoring/reporting issues for Clearwater Water System in the last ten years.
System profile
- Health-based violations, last 10 years
- 0
- Resolved
- 0
- Unresolved
- 0
- Any acute record
- No
- Monitoring issues, last 10 years
- 7
Key facts
- Clearwater Water System draws water from 45 wells (1 of them for emergency, seasonal or other part-time use).
- Most recent formal enforcement: signed compliance agreement by Florida, January 2001.
- Record on file since 2000, with 4 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
- Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 34,094 unknown out of 36,306 service lines.
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Health-based violations
Since October 2016Violation data reflects EPA records through March 2026. For the most current status, visit the EPA ECHO database.
None since October 2016.
Monitoring and reporting issues
Since October 2016Missed tests or reports, not contaminants found above a limit.
| Issue | Start date | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring violation
|
Aug 1, 2025 | Resolved |
|
Consumer Confidence Rule
OTHER
|
Jul 1, 2025 | Resolved |
|
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring violation
|
Dec 1, 2024 | Resolved |
|
Revised Total Coliform Rule
Monitoring violation
|
Sep 1, 2024 | Resolved |
|
Nitrate
Monitoring and reporting
|
Jan 1, 2024 | Resolved |
|
Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
Monitoring and reporting
|
Oct 1, 2023 |
Archived
Violation period ended. EPA no longer counts it toward current compliance, but no fix was formally recorded.
|
|
Lead and Copper Rule
Monitoring and reporting
|
Jan 1, 2022 | Resolved |
Full record since 2000
EPA's records for Clearwater Water System go back to 2000. Before October 19, 2016 they list 4 health-based violations (3 resolved, 1 archived by EPA without a recorded fix) and 2 monitoring or reporting violations.
| Violations that began in | Health-based | Monitoring and reporting |
|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 to October 18, 2016 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020s | 0 | 7 |
Most recent health-based violation before October 19, 2016: Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs), began January 2015, Resolved.
Show all 4 health-based violations before October 19, 2016
| Contaminant | Start date | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Contaminant limit exceeded
Measured 83 µg/L, federal limit 80 µg/L (at or just above the limit)
|
Jan 1, 2015 | Resolved |
|
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs)
Contaminant limit exceeded
Measured 81 µg/L, federal limit 80 µg/L (at or just above the limit)
|
Oct 1, 2014 | Resolved |
|
Total Coliform (acute)
Contaminant limit exceeded
|
Oct 1, 2013 | Resolved |
|
Total Coliform (acute)
Contaminant limit exceeded
|
Sep 1, 2004 | Archived |
Enforcement actions
Florida regulators took 1 formal enforcement action against Clearwater Water System in 2001. The most recent was a signed compliance agreement in January 2001.
| Date | By | Action | Violations covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 2001 | Florida | Signed compliance agreement | 1 violation: Total Coliform |
Where the water comes from
Clearwater Water System draws water from 45 wells (1 of them for emergency, seasonal or other part-time use). It also buys water from Pinellas County Utilities. It also has an emergency connection to City of St Petersburg. 2 other public water systems have emergency connections to Clearwater Water System.
Buys water from
- Pinellas County Utilities Largo, FL
Emergency or part-time connections to
- City of St Petersburg St Petersburg, FL
Annual water quality report
Clearwater Water System must give its customers an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) by July 1, with the levels its tests found in the previous year.
Systems serving 10,000 or more people must mail or deliver the report to every customer, and from 2027 they must send it twice a year.
Find a posted report with EPA's Consumer Confidence Report search
Testing your own water
To test the water at your tap, or a private well this record does not cover, use a laboratory certified for drinking water by Florida.
Certified drinking water labs by state EPA guidance for private wells