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Sutter County, California

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet CA101 · Sutter County 35 sys · 858 viol · #634/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-HIGH · RANK-TOP · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-HIGH · SRC-GW · SYS-SMALL · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 97.1% flagged
  • HEALTH-HIGH 64.8% health
  • RANK-TOP #634/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.3 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 50.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 97%
  • SYS-SMALL 35 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Del Norte County ( -0.3 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Sutter County ranks #634 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #39 of 58 counties in California. See methodology · corpus placement.

Sutter County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 97.1% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 64.8% is health-based share above the upper third (> 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 50.0% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #634 of 3,254 · #39 of 58 in California.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Sutter County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Alpine · lowest San Mateo · near Del Norte · near 70% 95.9% 96.2% 96.2% 96.9% 97.1%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
City of Yuba City 70,256 37 Clean
City of Live Oak 9,285 24 Detected
Sutter Community S.D. 2,904 13 -
National American Corp. LP-Lake Minden 1,065 7 -
Church of Glad Tidings 878 19 -
Wildewood East Mutual 350 11 -
East Nicolaus Joint Union High School 330 12 -
Sysco Food Services of Sacramento, Inc. 300 2 -
Golden State Water Co. - Robbins 205 156 -
Legacy Baptist Church 200 65 -
Marcum Illinois Elementary School 185 39 -
Pleasant Grove Elem. School 177 15 -
Browns Elementary School 160 14 -
Pasquini's (Micheli) WS 150 11 -
Holt of California 144 49 -
River Oaks Golf Club 130 8 -
Encinal Elementary School 128 43 -
Nuestro School 120 39 -
Live Oak Child Care Center 108 54 -
Meridian Elementary School 100 37 -
Sierra Gold Nurseries 100 5 -
Sri Guru Nanak Sikh Temple 100 25 -
Csp Labs & Micro Paradox 95 3 -
Coe Orchard Equipment 90 3 -
Lovey's Landing 89 12 -
Tierra Buena MHP #1 50 28 -
Verona Marina Launch & R.V. 50 12 -
Yuba Apartment Homes 40 14 -
East Nicolaus MWC 39 7 -
Dwr-Sutter Maintenance Yard 38 36 -
Harmony Village 25 27 -
Verona Village River Resort 25 6 -
Ranch House Restaurant & Bar 25 16 -
Oswald Water System 25 9 -
Holt 7518 25 0 -

Compare beyond California

Mid-flagged peers for Sutter County

Cross-state counties nearest Sutter County on flagged-system share (97.1%) and cumulative violation count (858). 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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