Community Water System · PWS CA2710300
Csp-Pfeiffer Big Sur
Operator location Monterey, California - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 585 people served; 14 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 585
- People served (this PWS)
- 14
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Csp-Pfeiffer Big Sur standing, low SDWIS violation third
585 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #26,790 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Csp-Pfeiffer Big Sur is in the lower third by violation count (14; 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 smaller (585; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,790 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,519 of 1,701
- Population · CA
- 14
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- 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
- State
- Connections
- 128
- County
- Monterey
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 8
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 1995 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 1 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Csp-Pfeiffer Big Sur has 14 recorded EPA violations, 24% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 75% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 14), and it ranks #26,790 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)
14 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 75% 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 Csp-Pfeiffer Big Sur
EPA SDWIS lists 585 people served and 128 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
14 violations · 585 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
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 Csp-Pfeiffer Big Sur
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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