Community Water System · PWS CA1000345
Panoche Water District
Operator location Firebaugh, California - 58% of 124 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 220 served per SDWIS.
- 220
- People served (this PWS)
- 124
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 72
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Panoche Water District standing, high SDWIS violation third
58% of 124 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 58% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Panoche Water District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (124), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (220; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 58% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 124
- Total EPA violations on record
- 58%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 220
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 50
- County
- Fresno
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 58
- Monitoring Violations
- 23
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 14
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 46 | 2020 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 14 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 10 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2011 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2016 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2016 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2009 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | Other | 2 | 2016 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2009 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Panoche Water District has 124 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 58% of this system's own violations are health-based (72 of 124), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
124 Higher than most more violations than 77% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Panoche Water District
72 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CA1000345.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
124 violations · 220 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Panoche Water District
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