Is CITY OF BENICIA's water safe to drink?
CITY OF BENICIA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 27,131, over 9,595 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF BENICIA has 3 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,959th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 31th percentile nationally.
Against the CA average
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - CITY OF BENICIA's 1 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
CITY OF BENICIA's most recent violation on record is dated 1998-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 1995-01-03. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF BENICIA'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: 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 CITY OF BENICIA's record does not cover
Everything on this page is CITY OF BENICIA'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 CITY OF BENICIA's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,959th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.