Community Water System · PWS CA2700702
Prunedale MWC
Operator location Salinas, California - 41% of 98 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 277 served per SDWIS.
- 277
- People served (this PWS)
- 98
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 40
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Prunedale MWC standing, high SDWIS violation third
41% of 98 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 41% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Prunedale MWC sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (98), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (277; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 41% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 98
- Total EPA violations on record
- 41%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 277
- 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
- 84
- County
- Monterey
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 40
- Monitoring Violations
- 53
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 27 | 2014 |
| Arsenic | MCL | 24 | 2022 |
| Arsenic | MR | 23 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 16 | 2009 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1981 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Prunedale MWC has 98 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 41% of this system's own violations are health-based (40 of 98), 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)
98 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Prunedale MWC
40 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CA2700702.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
98 violations · 277 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 Prunedale MWC
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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