Water Quality

A water service interruption for some customers in the low-pressure sewer area of the Ackerman Municipal Services Benefit Unit in Charlotte County will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21 and Wednesday, April 22.

Rainfall patterns have shifted during the last 30 years, providing less productive showers in Southwest Florida and some other parts of the country. That finding comes from AccuWeather, a commercial weather firm based in State College, Pennsylvania, known for its research on long-term climate trends

Florida is facing a new dilemma as the state’s supply of drinking water is beginning to dry up. The solution is to use reclaimed wastewater in situations where drinking water can be preserved.

Bonita Springs Utilities Inc. has earned top honors as the 2025 Best Tasting Drinking Water winner in a blind taste test conducted by the Southeast Desalting Association. The annual competition draws entries from water utilities across the 10-state region of the southeastern U.S. Samples were evaluated by a panel of judges on color, odor, clarity and overall taste.

The city of Fort Myers is admitting that it did not follow procedures, after high amounts of coliform bacteria showed up in test samples last November.Some city representatives, however, said they didn't know.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission completed a revegetation effort on Lake Okeechobee last week, improving the habitat in Fisheating Bay, Moore Haven Marsh, and the Fisheating Bay islands.

Mound House, a museum dedicated to the history of Fort Myers Beach, has a new public water quality monitoring station. The station collects 14 types of water quality data, including temperature, salinity, turbidity, pH and depth.

Lee County Utilities will end its routine free chlorine flush on May 21. It will convert its disinfection process back to the use of chloramines. The flush began May 1.

North Port is in the midst of two-week process to clear out the piping of the city's water system, which can be done while the water can still be used