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Where does your water actually come from?
Enter your ZIP and we’ll tell you which utility supplies your home, where that water comes from, and what it means for your plumbing. Where the utility publishes its own water quality report, we link you straight to it so you can check us.
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What’s in Nassau County water — in the utilities’ own numbers.
Hardness is measured in grains per gallon. Anything over 7 is hard; over 10.5 is very hard. Yulee and Wildlight tap water measures about 16 — “very hard” on the utility’s own scale.
City water
Yulee · Wildlight · other JEA-served Nassau addresses
Typically about 12 to 16 grains per gallon, “very hard” on JEA’s own scale (JEA’s 2025 report lists 274 ppm, 16 gpg, for this grid). North Jacksonville (32218, 32226): 14 to 15 gpg. Across the rest of Jacksonville, 7 to 22 depending on the plant serving your street.
JEA treats Floridan-aquifer groundwater with aeration and free chlorine (about 0.95 ppm average) and no softening step, which is why hardness at the tap is stable year to year.
Fernandina Beach · 16 to 19 gpg
Fernandina Beach · Nassau Amelia Utilities · wells
City of Fernandina Beach water typically runs 270 to 330 ppm — about 16 to 19 grains per gallon, “very hard” on the same scale; the city doesn’t print it in its annual report, so we confirm your number on the call.
Nassau Amelia Utilities (FGUA) publishes no hardness figure — we test. Callahan, Hilliard and Bryceville are mostly on private wells, which vary house to house — we test every one before we quote.
Grains per month, in one paragraph.
A household uses about 60 gallons per person per day. A family of four on 16-grain water sends roughly 3,800 grains of hardness through the house every day — about 115,000 a month. A softener holds a fixed number of grains before it cleans itself; ours holds 36,000, so that household’s system cleans itself about every 10 days, using about 9 pounds of salt each time. That is how we size the system to your house instead of selling the biggest tank.
What a water test reads — and what each number tells you
| Reading | What it tells you | Where the line is |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness (grains per gallon) | How much calcium and magnesium is in the water — the spots, scale and soap problem | Over 7 is hard; over 10.5 very hard. Our city water typically runs 12 to 19. |
| Chlorine (ppm) | The utility's disinfectant — the taste and the shower smell. Carbon takes it out. | Utilities here average roughly 0.6 to 2 ppm; it varies by day. |
| Iron (ppm) — wells | Orange staining; clear-water iron stains after it sits in air | Staining starts around 0.3 ppm, the federal taste-and-stain guideline. |
| Hydrogen sulfide — wells | The rotten-egg smell | Any detectable amount is noticeable; heavy sulfur moves the job to peroxide. |
| pH — wells | Acidic water eats copper and leaves blue-green stains | Below about 6.5 we add a pH Booster ahead of the system. |
| Total dissolved solids (ppm) | Everything dissolved in the water — the drinking-water taste question | The taste guideline is 500; RO at the sink brings it near zero. |
These are look, smell, taste and scale numbers — the utilities say so in their own reports, and so do we. City water is read from the utility’s published report; wells are tested on site, free, before we quote.
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