CITY OF ALHAMBRA: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF ALHAMBRA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 79,776 people get their water from it, across 18,106 connections.
How this compares nationally
CITY OF ALHAMBRA has 3 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,986th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 46th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF ALHAMBRA compares within CA
CITY OF ALHAMBRA's 2 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF ALHAMBRA is from 2009-01-11 (health-based: 2009-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF ALHAMBRA'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:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what CITY OF ALHAMBRA 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 CITY OF ALHAMBRA's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,986th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.