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Alachua sits about 15 miles up US 441 from Gainesville, with its own water, wastewater and electric utility run by the city. We send an emergency plumber to Alachua homes and businesses at any hour, for backed-up drains, burst lines and leaking water heaters.
If city water is out on the whole street, that's a call to City of Alachua Public Services. If it's only your house, call us, day or night.
What Irma taught Alachua about water
When Hurricane Irma came through in September 2017, Alachua's three city wells near downtown suffered a week of contamination and service outages. Floodwater also rushed through the Turkey Creek subdivision. For a lot of households, that was the first time they thought about where their water came from.
The city responded with a water quality and resiliency project. A new water facility and wellfield, drilled about 300 feet into the Floridan aquifer, opened in 2025 and raised daily capacity by roughly 30 percent.
What it means at the house: a boil notice or an outage usually ends with air, sediment or low pressure in your lines when service returns. Run cold taps for a few minutes first. If a faucet or the water heater keeps spitting sediment afterward, flushing the tank or cleaning aerators is the fix, and water heater repair handles a tank that won't clear.
Burst pipe or active leak in Alachua? Before we arrive
A few minutes of the right moves limits the damage while a plumber is on the way. These fit an Alachua home on city water.
Close the main at the meter box.
Most Alachua homes have a shutoff beside the meter by the street, in the box City of Alachua Public Services reads. A quarter turn on a ball valve stops the flow. If the house has its own valve where the line enters, close that one first.
Cut power to wet areas.
Switch off breakers for any room where water is reaching outlets or cords. For a leaking electric water heater, turn off its double breaker before touching the drain or supply valves.
Clear the floor and stop the drains.
Move rugs, boxes and electronics off wet floors. If sewage is rising from a floor drain in a storm, as Turkey Creek homes saw during Irma, stop running water and keep everyone out of that room.
Call the 24/7 line.
Call (954) 697-4920 and say what you shut off and what is still running. An Alachua dispatch goes out at any hour, and night rates, if they apply, are quoted first.
The calls Alachua homes and businesses make most
Alachua mixes a historic downtown, established neighborhoods, newer subdivisions and a business park. Each brings its own plumbing problems.
| Where | Typical problem | Service |
|---|---|---|
| Older homes near Main Street. | Aging drain lines and slow, recurring clogs. | Drain cleaning and camera inspection. |
| Turkey Creek and low-lying lots. | Backups after heavy rain. | Drain and sewer line clearing. |
| Newer subdivisions. | Irrigation and slab-line leaks, high water bills. | Leak detection. |
| Progress Park businesses. | Restroom, water heater and backflow needs. | Commercial plumbing. |
For older lines that clog again and again, drain cleaning opens the line and a camera shows why it keeps closing. Unexplained water use in newer homes is a job for leak detection.
Your utility is the city, not GRU
Alachua residents inside city limits get water and sewer from City of Alachua Public Services, not Gainesville Regional Utilities. The meter, mains and the public sewer belong to the city. Everything on your side of the meter, including the buried service line and the sewer lateral, is the owner's.
So if your neighbors lose water too, call the city first. If it's only your house, the problem is almost always on your side, and that's where we come in. Businesses in Progress Park have the same split, plus backflow and restroom demands covered by commercial plumbing.
Storm season checklist for Alachua homes
- Find your cleanout. If sewer backs up during a heavy storm, knowing where the outdoor cleanout is saves time.
- Keep drains clear before the rain. A partly clogged lateral is the one that backs up first when the ground is saturated.
- Store a few gallons of water. Irma showed that even a city system can be out for days.
- Know your main shutoff. If a line breaks while the house is soaked, you want the water off fast.
Where we work in Alachua
We cover all of Alachua ZIP 32615, from downtown Main Street and Turkey Creek to the Progress Park area and out along US 441. Heading south toward Gainesville, the same coverage runs through 32653 and 32606, and on into 32605, 32607, 32603, 32609 and 32601.
Across 32615 and 32653, the calls we get most are clogged drains and water heaters that quit. Closer in, in 32606 and 32605, leak detection on older slab homes is just as common, so the same crew that clears an Alachua drain line also traces hidden leaks in northwest Gainesville.
Pricing for Alachua calls
- Time of day. Night, weekend and holiday rates, if they apply, are quoted before dispatch.
- The job itself. A clog costs less than a line repair, and a part costs less than a new water heater.
- Access. An outdoor cleanout is quicker than pulling a toilet to reach a line.
Want your real number? Call (954) 697-4920. Non-emergency estimates are free.
Neighboring towns up and down US 441
North on US 441, High Springs is in the middle of a septic-to-sewer conversion. Southwest of Alachua, Newberry is growing fast on its own city utility. Both are a short drive from Alachua.
According to: Alachua water facility details per Mainstreet Daily News (October 2025). Turkey Creek flooding per WUFT Hurricane Irma coverage (2017). Utility services per City of Alachua Public Services.
Plumbing questions from Alachua
Yes. Most Alachua homes and businesses use 32615, from downtown Main Street and Turkey Creek out to the Progress Park area. The southern end of the city limits, heading down US 441 toward north Gainesville, carries 32653 addresses.
You may also see 32616, but that ZIP is reserved for post office boxes at the Alachua post office, so no house carries it. Any street address in town gets the same 24/7 line.
Yes. The phone is answered 24/7, nights, weekends and holidays included, and emergency calls anywhere in Alachua are dispatched at any hour. Night and holiday rates, if they apply, are quoted before anyone is sent.
Usually not. Air and sediment clear after a few minutes of running cold taps. If it doesn't clear, or the water heater keeps sending sediment, call us.
If your neighbors are out too, call City of Alachua Public Services. If it's just your house, the problem is on your side of the meter and a plumber should check it.
Yes. Restrooms, water heaters, backflow assemblies and kitchen lines for businesses there are covered.
All of them along the US 441 corridor: 32615 in Alachua, then 32653 and 32606 in northwest Gainesville, and 32605, 32607, 32603, 32609 and 32601 closer in. Emergency calls in any of them are answered 24/7.