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Jacksonville, Florida

JEA 2025 Water Quality Report. Floridan aquifer, Major Grid for most of Duval County. Chlorine residual is printed by grid, not as one citywide number. Hardness is a zip-code table, not a blend. No Measure S-style residential softener ban turned up.

Cited chemistry for JacksonvilleA chart of numbers printed on the utility report, each labeled with its unit. Missing numbers are left off.Hardness (zip 32202)239 ppm / 14 gpgWQR
Cited numbers from the utility report. Length follows the printed value against a labeled scale — not a health ranking. If the report has no number, it is not on the chart.
  1. Hardness (zip 32202)239 ppm / 14 gpg

Best match for Jacksonville

Salt-based water softener

No district prohibition on a brine drain turned up in the current file.

Two tall mineral tanks and a black brine tank of a salt-based water softener, plumbed with copper pipe in a garage.
Salt-based softener: two mineral tanks and a brine tank.

A salt-based softener is the thing that actually removes hardness. Size it from your grains and how much water you use, not bathroom count. It needs a drain.

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Other options that still fit

  • Salt-free conditioner

    A salt-free conditioner changes how scale sticks. It does not soften. Soap and spots stay closer to untreated. No brine line.

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  • Whole-house carbon for chlorine

    That is chlorine. A whole-house carbon filter with an NSF/ANSI 42 chlorine claim is the usual match. A softener will not take chlorine out.

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  • Under-sink reverse osmosis

    The under-sink RO we actually run is Cloud RO — NSF/ANSI 58, kitchen tap, not a whole-house tank. Check the exact listing if PFAS is why you are shopping. Shop Amazon first for under-sink RO, or buy Cloud direct. Waterdrop is a tankless option if you want that path. A certifier-listed pitcher is the cheap first step. Nobody is paying for a medical claim.

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  • Test the tap first

    A homeowner kit is a start. It is not a state-certified lab. Use a certified lab when the decision is expensive.

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On the report

Water utility
JEA
Hardness
JEA does not print one citywide hardness on the 2025 CCR. The zip-code table at jea.com/hardness lists labeled averages by zip (sampled October–December of the prior year). Downtown 32202 prints 239 ppm / 14 gpg. That is a zip row, not a blend we invented. — JEA Water Hardness Levels by Zip Code
Disinfectant
Chlorine. JEA prints residual by grid on the 2025 report. One 2025 chlorine row we opened is 0.64 ppm (range 0.2–1.25). Another grid row is 1.4 ppm (range 0.31–1.98). Open the current report for the grid on the bill. This file does not pick a citywide residual. — JEA 2025 Water Quality Report
Brine / salt to the sewer
No district prohibition found in current research. No JEA or City of Jacksonville residential softener ban like LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain.

Also around here

Extra context besides the utility report and the chart above — geology, an unregulated table, or a published study. Not a second set of printed tap numbers.

  • MicroplasticsWHO’s 2019 review examined studies that found microplastic particles in treated tap and bottled water in many places. That is a published-occurrence finding, not a number from this city’s water-quality report, and we do not invent a particles-per-liter count for the tap.Microplastics in drinking-water — World Health Organization
  • Other labeled zip hardnessThe same JEA zip table prints these as labeled zip averages, not a citywide blend.32204 247 ppm / 14 gpg. 32207 298 ppm / 17 gpg. 32244 128 ppm / 8 gpg. 32256 336 ppm / 20 gpg.Water Hardness Levels by Zip Code — JEA

Jacksonville drinking water is withdrawn from the Floridan aquifer and delivered by JEA. The Major Grid serves most of Duval County. No JEA or city residential softener ban like LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain. This is not a legal opinion.

The 2025 Water Quality Report does not print one citywide hardness number. JEA’s zip-code table lists labeled averages — downtown 32202 prints 239 ppm / 14 grains. We do not invent a citywide blend. Open jea.com/hardness for the zip on the bill.

Chlorine residual is printed by grid. One 2025 row we opened is 0.64 ppm (range 0.2–1.25). Another grid row is 1.4 ppm (range 0.31–1.98). This file does not pick a citywide residual. Kitchen shopping stays the Cloud RO / Waterdrop path already used on other cities if a listing is why you are looking.

Sources

  1. 2025 Water Quality Report — JEA. Accessed 2026-09-09.
  2. Water Hardness Levels by Zip Code — JEA. Accessed 2026-09-09.

Updated September 9, 2026. A city file is chemistry we can cite plus the sewer rule. No invented detections.