Community Water System · PWS CA1503226
Qvwd-West & East Combined Water System
Operator location Tehachapi, California - 49% of 49 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 221 served per SDWIS.
- 221
- People served (this PWS)
- 49
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 24
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Qvwd-West & East Combined Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third
49% of 49 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 49% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Qvwd-West & East Combined Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (49), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (221; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 49% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 49
- Total EPA violations on record
- 49%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 221
- 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
- 80
- County
- Kern
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 24
- Monitoring Violations
- 25
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2016 |
| Antimony, Total | MCL | 12 | 2018 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 12 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2014 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 2007 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 2 | 2007 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Qvwd-West & East Combined Water System has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 49% of this system's own violations are health-based (24 of 49), 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)
49 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Qvwd-West & East Combined Water System
24 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CA1503226.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
49 violations · 221 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Qvwd-West & East Combined Water System
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