Is BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD's water safe to drink?
BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,483 people through 587 service connections.
BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD's record against the rest of the country
55 total violations and 49 health-based ones put BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD at the 98th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 287 of 12,903.
How BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD compares within CA
BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD's 49 health-based violations sit above the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD is from 2013-01-01 (health-based: 2013-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 49 health-based violations on file for BOLINAS COMMUNITY PUD - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.