Is CITY OF HAYWARD's water safe to drink?

CITY OF HAYWARD's only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. It serves 162,954 people through 36,641 service connections.

CITY OF HAYWARD's record against the rest of the country

1 total violations and 0 health-based ones put CITY OF HAYWARD at the 5th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 12,239 of 12,903.

How CITY OF HAYWARD compares within CA

Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - CITY OF HAYWARD's 0 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

What this data is and is not

CITY OF HAYWARD'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. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF HAYWARD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 12,239th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.