BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM: EPA violation history, explained
BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 5,999 people through 1,828 service connections.
How this compares nationally
4 total violations and 3 health-based ones put BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM at the 57th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,591 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM's 3 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM's most recent violation on record is dated 2009-01-06, with the most recent health-based one dated 2009-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Trichloroethylene
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM's record does not cover
This is what BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and BELLFLOWER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,591th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.