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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS CA5102032

Dwr-Sutter Maintenance Yard

Operator location Sutter, California - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 38 people served; 36 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

38
People served (this PWS)
36
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Dwr-Sutter Maintenance Yard standing, mid SDWIS violation third

38 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 19% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Dwr-Sutter Maintenance Yard lands in the middle third by violation volume (36), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (38; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 19% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

36
Total EPA violations on record
19%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
38
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
State
Connections
1
County
Sutter
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
7
Monitoring Violations
26
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 18 2015
Coliform (TCR) MCL 7 2002
Nitrate MR 5 2013
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2013

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Dwr-Sutter Maintenance Yard has 36 recorded EPA violations, 47% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 52% carry more. 19% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 36), 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)

36 Lower than most fewer violations than 52% 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 Dwr-Sutter Maintenance Yard

EPA SDWIS lists 38 people served and 1 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

36 violations · 38 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.

4 peers

What to do with Dwr-Sutter Maintenance Yard

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
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

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