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Community Water System · PWS CA5010039

Western Hills Water District/Diablo Gran

Operator location Patterson, California - 71% of 87 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,000 served per SDWIS.

2,000
People served (this PWS)
87
EPA violations (this PWS)
62
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Western Hills Water District/Diablo Gran standing, high SDWIS violation third

71% of 87 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 71% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,545 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Western Hills Water District/Diablo Gran sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (87), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,000 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 71% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#13,545 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#910 of 1,701
Population · CA
87
Total EPA violations on record
71%
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
596
County
Stanislaus
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
60
Monitoring Violations
19
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 46 2017
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 14 2006
Coliform (TCR) MR 7 2008
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2018
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 4 2008
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 3 2009
CARBON, TOTAL MR 2 2009
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 2 2006

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Western Hills Water District/Diablo Gran has 87 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 71% of this system's own violations are health-based (62 of 87), and it ranks #13,545 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)

87 Around the middle fewer violations than 30% 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 Western Hills Water District/Diablo Gran

62 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CA5010039.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water

Nationwide peers

87 violations · 2,000 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with comparable violation load

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Western Hills Water District/Diablo Gran

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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