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Community Water System · PWS CA3700922

Live Oak Springs Water System

Operator location Spring Valley, California - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 317 people served; 39 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

317
People served (this PWS)
39
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Live Oak Springs Water System standing, mid SDWIS violation third

317 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Live Oak Springs Water System lands in the middle third by violation volume (39), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (317; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

39
Total EPA violations on record
5%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
317
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
Local
Connections
92
County
San Diego
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
22
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2008
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2022
Nitrite MR 2 2016
Simazine MR 2 2016
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 2 1981
Chromium MR 2 2016
Arsenic MR 2 2016
Nitrate MR 2 2016
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 2005
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2005
Atrazine MR 2 2016

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Live Oak Springs Water System has 39 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 50% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 39), 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)

39 Lower than most fewer violations than 50% 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 Live Oak Springs Water System

EPA SDWIS lists 317 people served and 92 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

39 violations · 317 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Live Oak Springs Water System

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater