California Water Service - Bear Gulch, CA Water Quality
What's in California Water Service - Bear Gulch's water?
California Water Service - Bear Gulch has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 61,431 people through 18,749 service connections.
How this compares nationally
5 total violations and 3 health-based ones put California Water Service - Bear Gulch at the 57th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,521 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
California Water Service - Bear Gulch's 3 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 804 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
California Water Service - Bear Gulch's most recent violation on record is dated 2015-01-03, with the most recent health-based one dated 2015-01-03. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
California Water Service - Bear Gulch'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); Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 California Water Service - Bear Gulch's record does not cover
California Water Service - Bear Gulch's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for California Water Service - Bear Gulch - 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.