CITY OF BURLINGAME: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF BURLINGAME has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 31,451 people through 8,731 service connections.
How this compares nationally
CITY OF BURLINGAME has 5 violations on record in total, 5 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,844th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 70th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF BURLINGAME compares within CA
CITY OF BURLINGAME's 5 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF BURLINGAME is from 2014-01-07 (health-based: 2014-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF BURLINGAME'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 this data is and is not
CITY OF BURLINGAME'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 - 5 health-based violations on file for CITY OF BURLINGAME - 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.