Community Water System · PWS CA3710009
Descanso Community Water District
Operator location Sacramento, California - 86% of 35 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 870 served per SDWIS.
- 870
- People served (this PWS)
- 35
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 30
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Descanso Community Water District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
86% of 35 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 86% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #21,526 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Descanso Community Water District lands in the middle third by violation volume (35), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (870; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 86% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #21,526 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,282 of 1,701
- Population · CA
- 35
- Total EPA violations on record
- 86%
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 315
- County
- San Diego
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 30
- Monitoring Violations
- 5
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Uranium | MCL | 30 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Descanso Community Water District has 35 recorded EPA violations, 46% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 53% carry more. 86% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 35), and it ranks #21,526 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)
35 Lower than most fewer violations than 53% 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 Descanso Community Water District
30 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CA3710009.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
35 violations · 870 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 Descanso Community Water District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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