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CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU: EPA violation history, explained

CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,003, over 613 connections.

CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU's record against the rest of the country

CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU has 3 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,061th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 30th percentile nationally.

How CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU compares within CA

CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU's 1 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU is from 2021-01-05 (health-based: 2002-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU'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:

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

This is what CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU 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 CAL AMERICAN WATER COMPANY - PIRU's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 9,061th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.