CITY OF ARCADIA: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF ARCADIA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 51,361 people through 15,564 service connections.
How this compares nationally
9 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CITY OF ARCADIA at the 36th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,274 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - CITY OF ARCADIA's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
CITY OF ARCADIA's most recent violation on record is dated 2016-11-02, with the most recent health-based one dated 2006-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF ARCADIA'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 CITY OF ARCADIA's record does not cover
CITY OF ARCADIA'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 - 1 health-based violation on file for CITY OF ARCADIA - 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.