Community Water System · PWS CA4100503
Butano Canyon Mutual
Operator location Pescadero, California - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 150 people served; 49 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 150
- People served (this PWS)
- 49
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Butano Canyon Mutual standing, mid SDWIS violation third
150 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Butano Canyon Mutual lands in the middle third by violation volume (49), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (150; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 49
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 150
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 95
- County
- San Mateo
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 15
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| TTHM | MCL | 2 | 2015 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 2 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2014 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 1981 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Butano Canyon Mutual has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 49), 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)
49 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Butano Canyon Mutual
EPA SDWIS lists 150 people served and 95 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
49 violations · 150 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.
What to do with Butano Canyon Mutual
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