Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS CA2701221
Washington School WS
Operator location Salinas, California - 77% of 310 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 250 served per SDWIS.
- 250
- People served (this PWS)
- 310
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 238
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Washington School WS standing, high SDWIS violation third
77% of 310 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 77% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Washington School WS sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (310), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (250; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 77% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 310
- Total EPA violations on record
- 77%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 250
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 2
- County
- Monterey
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 238
- Monitoring Violations
- 64
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 138 | 2022 |
| Cadmium | MCL | 98 | 2022 |
| Arsenic | MR | 37 | 2014 |
| Cadmium | MR | 17 | 2014 |
| TTHM | MR | 6 | 2010 |
| Cadmium | Other | 5 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2010 |
| TTHM | MCL | 2 | 2006 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Washington School WS has 310 recorded EPA violations, 91% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 9% carry more. 77% of this system's own violations are health-based (238 of 310), 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)
310 Higher than most more violations than 91% 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 Washington School WS
238 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CA2701221.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
310 violations · 250 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 Washington School WS
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