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Shasta County, California

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet CA089 · Shasta County 180 sys · 2,130 viol · #322/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-MID · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-LOW · SRC-GW · SYS-LARGE · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 86.1% flagged
  • HEALTH-MID 32.5% health
  • RANK-TOP #322/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-LOW 12.5% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 89%
  • SYS-LARGE 180 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Santa Barbara County (+ 0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Shasta County ranks #322 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #30 of 58 counties in California. See methodology · corpus placement.

Shasta County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 86.1% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 32.5% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 12.5% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #322 of 3,254 · #30 of 58 in California.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Shasta County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Shasta County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Alpine · lowest Shasta · this county Colusa · near Sutter · highest 70% 85.7% 86.1% 86.2% 86.2% 86.7% 97.1%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Redding 89,628 15 Detected
Bella Vista Water District 18,612 9 Clean
City of Anderson 11,147 11 Clean
City of Shasta Lake 10,657 3 Clean
Shasta District Fair 10,200 36 -
Clear Creek Csd-Anderson 8,900 7 Clean
Centerville C.s.d. 4,151 8 Clean
Caltrans-Lakehead Srra 3,500 10 -
Cottonwood Water District 3,316 9 Clean
Burney Water District 3,154 43 -
Shasta C.s.d. 3,069 0 -
Caltrans-O'Brien Srra 2,550 5 -
Caltrans-Hillcrest Srra 2,500 12 -
Mountain Gate C.s.d. 2,227 32 -
Whiskeytown Nra-Brandy Creek 2,164 2 -
Shasta CSA - Jones Valley, #6 2,006 11 -
Dp&r - McArthur-Burney Falls Sp 1,800 2 -
Fall River Valley Csd 1,535 21 -
Antlers Shell / Subway 1,500 17 -
Del Oro Water Co.-Johnson Park 904 25 -
West Valley High School 850 9 -
Shasta Forest Village M.W.C. 750 5 -
Anderson Union High School 700 20 -
Junction School District 700 10 -
Whiskeytown Nra-Whiskey Creek 662 0 -
Whiskeytown Nra-Headquarters 594 6 -
Sun Oaks Racquet Club 521 6 -
Starlite Pines Mutual Water Co Inc 510 6 -
Lassen Pines Mutual Water Co Inc 475 6 -
Pacheco Elementary School 450 6 -
Whiskeytown Nra-Oak Bottom 440 2 -
El Rio Estates 434 16 -
Dp&r - Castle Crags Sp 425 0 -
Shasta CSA - French Gulch, #11 419 20 -
Shingletown Store Water System 417 2 -
White Oak Mutual Water Company 415 10 -
Balls Ferry Fishing Resort 408 10 -
Neighborhood Church Anderson Cottonwood 400 2 -
Sacramento River RV Park 382 0 -
Prairie Elementary School 375 14 -
Usfs/Lassen Hat Creek Campgrnd 365 10 -
Verde Vale Water Company 356 14 -
Verde Vale Elementary School 340 6 -
Shasta CSA - Castella, #3 333 36 -
Jgw RV Park 324 0 -
Trail in RV Campground 318 4 -
Lakeside Woods Mutual Water Co 310 6 Clean
Mel Mar Mutual Water Co 300 19 -
Elevate Camps Small Water System 300 8 -
Rancho Market 300 0 -

Compare beyond California

Lower-flagged peers for Shasta County

Cross-state counties nearest Shasta County on flagged-system share (86.1%) and cumulative violation count (2,130). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

4 peers

Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

4 peers

Read our methodology · Check your water system - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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