Community Water System · PWS CA1910019
Cerritos - City, Water Dept.
Operator location Cerritos, California - UCMR5 detected 1 PFAS compound (lower-third PFAS panel (≤ 2 compounds)) on this PWS; SDWIS lists 0 violations and 47,475 people served.
- 47,475
- People served (this PWS)
- 0
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- 1 PFAS
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cerritos - City, Water Dept. standing, low SDWIS violation third
UCMR5 detected 1 PFAS compound - lower-third PFAS panel (≤ 2 compounds). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). UCMR5: lower-third PFAS panel (≤ 2 compounds). Population rank #1,159 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Cerritos - City, Water Dept. is in the lower third by violation count (0; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is large (47,475; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. No violations are on record in this extract. UCMR5 detected 1 PFAS compound (lower-third PFAS panel (≤ 2 compounds)).
- #1,159 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #203 of 1,701
- Population · CA
- 0
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
1 PFAS "forever chemicals" detected in testing under EPA's UCMR5 monitoring program.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 15,342
- County
- Los Angeles
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 0
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cerritos - City, Water Dept. has 0 recorded EPA violations, 0% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 96% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 0), and it ranks #1,159 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
0 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 96% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
PFAS Testing Results (UCMR5)
Results from EPA's Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule. 1 of 290 samples detected PFAS.
| Contaminant | Date | Result | MRL | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9Cl-PF3ONS | 8/8/2024 | <2.00 ppt | 2.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFTA | 8/8/2024 | <8.00 ppt | 8.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFTrDA | 8/8/2024 | <7.00 ppt | 7.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| NEtFOSAA | 8/8/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| NMeFOSAA | 8/8/2024 | <6.00 ppt | 6.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFBS | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHpA | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHxS | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFNA | 8/8/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFOA | 8/8/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFDA | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFDoA | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHxA | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFOS | 8/8/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 11Cl-PF3OUdS | 8/8/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| ADONA | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| HFPO-DA | 8/8/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFBA | 8/8/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 6:2 FTS | 8/8/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 4:2 FTS | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 8:2 FTS | 8/8/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFMPA | 8/8/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFPeA | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFMBA | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFEESA | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| NFDHA | 8/8/2024 | <20.00 ppt | 20.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFPeS | 8/8/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHpS | 8/8/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFUnA | 8/8/2024 | <2.00 ppt | 2.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFOA | 5/13/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| HFPO-DA | 5/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| ADONA | 5/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 9Cl-PF3ONS | 5/13/2024 | <2.00 ppt | 2.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 11Cl-PF3OUdS | 5/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFUnA | 5/13/2024 | <2.00 ppt | 2.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHxA | 5/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFDoA | 5/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| NMeFOSAA | 5/13/2024 | <6.00 ppt | 6.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFOS | 5/13/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHxS | 5/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFNA | 5/13/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHpA | 5/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFTA | 5/13/2024 | <8.00 ppt | 8.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFBS | 5/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFBA | 5/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFDA | 5/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFHpS | 5/13/2024 | <3.00 ppt | 3.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| 6:2 FTS | 5/13/2024 | <5.00 ppt | 5.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFTrDA | 5/13/2024 | <7.00 ppt | 7.00 ppt | Not Detected |
| PFPeS | 5/13/2024 | <4.00 ppt | 4.00 ppt | Not Detected |
UCMR5 PFAS record for Cerritos - City, Water Dept.
Open EPA SDWIS federal reports for PWS CA1910019 to cross-check UCMR5 detections and violation codes; state primacy agencies enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act locally.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
0 violations · 47,475 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Cerritos - City, Water Dept.
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