Is CARPINTERIA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
CARPINTERIA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 15,996, over 4,431 connections.
How this compares nationally
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, CARPINTERIA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT ranks 4,564th by violation burden (65th percentile) - 5 violations total, 4 health-baseds.
Against the CA average
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - CARPINTERIA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT's 4 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
CARPINTERIA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT's most recent violation on record is dated 2013-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2013-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
CARPINTERIA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What CARPINTERIA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT's record does not cover
Everything on this page is CARPINTERIA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and CARPINTERIA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,564th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.