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City of Sarasota Utilities Department has a Water Score of 68 out of 100 (Fair) on our scale. 4 of 19 detected contaminants are above a published health guideline (2018-2025). EPA compliance: no open violations (July to September 2026 extract); this is public data, not a test of your tap.
We didn't find chloramine in City of Sarasota's EPA treatment records. That's not a complete list; your utility's annual water quality report says which disinfectant it uses.
EPA's records list no health-based violations for the City of Sarasota for compliance periods starting since July 1, 2021. Lead, 90th percentile: 1 ppb at the latest result since July 2021, at or below EPA's 15 ppb action level (EPA SDWIS, monitoring period January to December 2025). In the EPA UCMR 5 data we use, PFOS and PFOA were not detected at or above EPA's reporting level in any of the City of Sarasota's 2 samples. Scored against health guidelines that are stricter than legal limits, using public utility data. Not a test of your tap.
The 90th percentile is a system-wide measure from homes sampled under EPA's lead rule; it isn't a result for your home.
EPA UCMR 5 data, samples through June 2026.
4 contaminants above health guidelines (of 19 detected)
Guideline basis: long-term cancer risk
Bromodichloromethane: a disinfection by-product that forms when chlorine reacts with organic matter. California OEHHA set a 0.06 ppb public health goal to limit long-term cancer risk. Source: California OEHHA
Guideline basis: long-term cancer risk
Dibromochloromethane: a disinfection by-product that forms when chlorine reacts with organic matter. California OEHHA set a 0.1 ppb public health goal in 2020 to limit long-term cancer risk; it also counts toward EPA's 80 ppb limit for total trihalomethanes. Source: California OEHHA
Guideline basis: long-term cancer risk
Chloroform: a disinfection by-product that forms when chlorine reacts with organic matter. California OEHHA set a 0.4 ppb public health goal in 2020 to limit long-term cancer risk; it also counts toward EPA's 80 ppb limit for total trihalomethanes. Source: California OEHHA
Guideline basis: long-term cancer risk
Bromoform: a disinfection by-product that forms when chlorine reacts with organic matter. California OEHHA set a 0.5 ppb public health goal in 2020 to limit long-term cancer risk; it also counts toward EPA's 80 ppb limit for total trihalomethanes. Source: California OEHHA
Lead: 1 ppb (90th percentile of tap samples, January to December 2025). EPA action level (90th percentile): 15 ppb.
Lead is measured at the tap in homes selected because they are most likely to have lead plumbing. EPA says lead in drinking water mainly comes from pipes, solder and fixtures in service lines and buildings, not from the water source. Your home's plumbing matters more than the utility's number. EPA's goal (MCLG) for lead is zero.
California's public health goal for lead is 0.2 ppb.
If your home is older or may have a lead service line, ask your utility (it must keep a service-line inventory) or have your tap tested by a state-certified lab.
| Contaminant | This utility | Legal limit or action level | Health guideline |
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None recorded in EPA SDWIS for compliance periods starting since Jul 1, 2021.
Source: EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWA bulk extract, July to September 2026).
These are EPA's and Florida DEP's public records for this water system, shown as of October 14, 2026. If you represent this utility, or think a record here is wrong, tell us: Report an error. If the error is in EPA's or Florida DEP's own records, the state drinking water program can correct it there, and this page updates at our next data refresh.
A legal limit is an enforceable standard, set by the EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Limits weigh health research together with the cost and feasibility of treatment. A health guideline is published by public-health sources and based on health research alone. A utility can meet every legal limit and still be above a published health guideline.
City of Sarasota Utilities Department is the main water provider for Sarasota. Some addresses can be served by a different system, so check your water bill: it names your utility.
Call (941) 263-6260 or visit https://www.sarasotafl.gov/utilities. Billing and outages are handled by the utility, not by ScoreYourWater.
By EPA's service-area maps, the City of Sarasota is the main water system serving Sarasota (Sarasota County, FL). Your water bill names your utility. Source: EPA Water System Boundaries and U.S. Census Bureau 2020 place boundaries.
City of Sarasota does not buy water from another system, according to EPA SDWA records. No other utility in this data buys water from it. (July to September 2026 extract.)
4 of 19 detected contaminants were above their published health guidelines in EPA SDWA, EPA UCMR and Florida DEP data, 2018-2025. The highest: Bromodichloromethane at 244 times its guideline, Dibromochloromethane at 197 times its guideline and Chloroform at 20 times its guideline.
Chloramine is a disinfectant made by combining chlorine and ammonia. Some water systems use it in place of free chlorine. The public data used on this site (EPA SDWA, EPA UCMR and Florida DEP data) does not record which disinfectant City of Sarasota uses, so we do not say. Your utility can tell you.
The score starts at 100. It goes down 8 for each contaminant above a cited health guideline whose source states a cancer basis, 5 for each other contaminant above its cited guideline, 5 for each of PFOA and PFOS averaging above the 4.0 ppt limit in EPA's 2024 PFAS rule, 10 for each contaminant whose average of all samples is above EPA's legal limit (instead of its guideline step), and 1 for each contaminant with a cited cancer-based guideline that is detected below it. Only guidelines with a cited document count. The lowest score is 5. Higher is better. For this report: 100 minus 8 times 4 is 68, so the score is 68.
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| Years |
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| Fluoride | 491 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 491 ppbdetected in 2 of 2 samples | 4,000 ppb | None published | 2020 |
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| Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) | 50.5 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 78.2 ppbdetected in 80 of 80 samples | 80 ppb | None published | 2018-2022 |
| Nitrate | 37.4 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 74 ppbdetected in 3 of 5 samples | 10,000 ppb | None published | 2018-2022 |
| Copper | 18 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 18 ppbdetected in 1 of 1 sampleMeasured where water enters the distribution system, not at the tap. EPA's action level applies to tap samples. | 1,300 ppb (EPA action level, 90th percentile) | None published | 2020 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA9) | 13.3 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 15.7 ppbdetected in 8 of 8 samples | No federal limit | None published | 2019-2020 |
| Haloacetic acids (HAA5) | 8.47 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 20.7 ppbdetected in 80 of 80 samples | 60 ppb | None published | 2018-2022 |
| Barium | 5 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 5 ppbdetected in 1 of 1 sample | 2,000 ppb | None published | 2020 |
| Dibromoacetic acid | 3.75 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 6.15 ppbdetected in 47 of 47 samples | Counts toward the 60 ppb limit for haloacetic acids (HAA5) | None published | 2020-2022 |
| Manganese | 3 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 3 ppbdetected in 1 of 1 sample | No federal limit | None published | 2020 |
| Dichloroacetic acid | 1.76 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 3.69 ppbdetected in 42 of 48 samples | Counts toward the 60 ppb limit for haloacetic acids (HAA5) | None published | 2020-2022 |
| Trichloroacetic acid | 1.66 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 13.1 ppbdetected in 45 of 48 samples | Counts toward the 60 ppb limit for haloacetic acids (HAA5) | None published | 2020-2022 |
| Monobromoacetic acid | 0.83 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 4.07 ppbdetected in 27 of 48 samples | Counts toward the 60 ppb limit for haloacetic acids (HAA5) | None published | 2020-2022 |
| Radium-226 | 0.8 pCi/Laverage of all sampleshighest sample 0.8 pCi/Ldetected in 1 of 1 sample | Counts toward the combined 5 pCi/L limit for radium-226 and radium-228 | None published | 2020 |
| Monochloroacetic acid | 0.5 ppbaverage of all sampleshighest sample 5.74 ppbdetected in 11 of 48 samples | Counts toward the 60 ppb limit for haloacetic acids (HAA5) | None published | 2020-2022 |
A legal limit is an enforceable standard, set by the EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Limits weigh health research together with the cost and feasibility of treatment. A health guideline is published by public-health sources and based on health research alone. A utility can meet every legal limit and still be above a published health guideline.