Community Water System · PWS CA1500436
Hungry Gulch MWC
Operator location Lake Isabella, California - 87% of 157 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 74 served per SDWIS.
- 74
- People served (this PWS)
- 157
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 136
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Hungry Gulch MWC standing, high SDWIS violation third
87% of 157 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 87% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Hungry Gulch MWC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (157), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (74; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 87% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 157
- Total EPA violations on record
- 87%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 74
- 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
- 36
- County
- Kern
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 136
- Monitoring Violations
- 19
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 128 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2006 |
| Arsenic | MR | 8 | 2008 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2001 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2000 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Nitrite | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Atrazine | MR | 2 | 1999 |
| Asbestos | MR | 2 | 1993 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Hungry Gulch MWC has 157 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 87% of this system's own violations are health-based (136 of 157), 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)
157 Higher than most more violations than 82% 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 Hungry Gulch MWC
136 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CA1500436.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
157 violations · 74 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 Hungry Gulch MWC
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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