CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 29,519 people through 3,906 service connections.
CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO ranks 2,797th by violation burden (78th percentile) - 13 violations total, 7 health-baseds.
Against the CA average
CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO's 7 health-based violations sit above 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
CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO's most recent violation on record is dated 2015-01-03, with the most recent health-based one dated 2015-01-03. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO'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 CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO's record does not cover
This is what CITY OF EAST PALO ALTO 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 EAST PALO ALTO's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,797th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.