Community Water System · PWS CA2410018
Santa Nella County Water District
Operator location Santa Nella, California - 73% of 41 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,211 served per SDWIS.
- 2,211
- People served (this PWS)
- 41
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 30
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Santa Nella County Water District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
73% of 41 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 73% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,799 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Santa Nella County Water District lands in the middle third by violation volume (41), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,211 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 73% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,799 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #863 of 1,701
- Population · CA
- 41
- Total EPA violations on record
- 73%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
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
- 671
- County
- Merced
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 28
- Monitoring Violations
- 8
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 26 | 2014 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 2 | 2001 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 2 | 2011 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 2 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 2 | 2004 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Santa Nella County Water District has 41 recorded EPA violations, 51% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 73% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 41), and it ranks #12,799 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)
41 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% 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 Santa Nella County Water District
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 CA2410018.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
41 violations · 2,211 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Santa Nella County Water District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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