Community Water System · PWS CA2701254
Carmel Riviera MWC
Operator location Carmel, California - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 584 people served; 58 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 584
- People served (this PWS)
- 58
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 10
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Carmel Riviera MWC standing, mid SDWIS violation third
584 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 17% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #26,813 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Carmel Riviera MWC lands in the middle third by violation volume (58), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (584; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 17% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,813 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,520 of 1,701
- Population · CA
- 58
- Total EPA violations on record
- 17%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 176
- County
- Monterey
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 10
- Monitoring Violations
- 9
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2005 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 3 | 2006 |
| TTHM | MCL | 3 | 2008 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1981 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Carmel Riviera MWC has 58 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 39% carry more. 17% of this system's own violations are health-based (10 of 58), and it ranks #26,813 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)
58 Around the middle fewer violations than 39% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Carmel Riviera MWC
EPA SDWIS lists 584 people served and 176 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
58 violations · 584 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Carmel Riviera MWC
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in California compares on the same EPA violation measures. California systems
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