Community Water System · PWS CA5210003
Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist.
Operator location Los Molinos, California - 94% of 121 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,450 served per SDWIS.
- 1,450
- People served (this PWS)
- 121
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 114
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist. standing, high SDWIS violation third
94% of 121 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 94% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,284 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist. sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (121), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,450 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 94% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,284 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,022 of 1,701
- Population · CA
- 121
- Total EPA violations on record
- 94%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 373
- County
- Tehama
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 114
- Monitoring Violations
- 5
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 92 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 22 | 2002 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2011 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist. has 121 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 94% of this system's own violations are health-based (114 of 121), and it ranks #16,284 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)
121 Higher than most more violations than 77% 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 Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist.
114 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CA5210003.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · California State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
121 violations · 1,450 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Los Molinos Comm. Services Dist.
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