What's in CITY OF LONG BEACH's water?
CITY OF LONG BEACH has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 18,514 people get their water from it, across 7,013 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
194 total violations and 2 health-based ones put CITY OF LONG BEACH at the 56th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,696 of 12,903.
How CITY OF LONG BEACH compares within MS
CITY OF LONG BEACH's 2 health-based violations sit within the MS average of 3.2, across 349 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 LONG BEACH is from 2011-01-04 (health-based: 2011-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF LONG BEACH'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)
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
This is what CITY OF LONG BEACH 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 LONG BEACH's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,696th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.