Community Water System · PWS CA1400004
Charles Brown Water Company
Operator location Shoshone, California - 38% of 79 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 242 served per SDWIS.
- 242
- People served (this PWS)
- 79
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 30
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Charles Brown Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third
38% of 79 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 38% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Charles Brown Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (79), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (242; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 38% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 79
- Total EPA violations on record
- 38%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 242
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 31
- County
- Inyo
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 27
- Monitoring Violations
- 38
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MR | 14 | 2015 |
| Arsenic | MCL | 12 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 11 | 2002 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2005 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2024 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2023 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 3 | 1982 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 2 | 2023 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 2 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 1 | 1982 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Charles Brown Water Company has 79 recorded EPA violations, 68% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 38% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 79), 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)
79 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% 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 Charles Brown Water Company
30 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CA1400004.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
79 violations · 242 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 Charles Brown Water Company
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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