Is CITY OF LOS BANOS's water safe to drink?
CITY OF LOS BANOS had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. Population served: 47,419, over 13,506 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
6 total violations and 3 health-based ones put CITY OF LOS BANOS at the 58th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,472 of 12,903.
How CITY OF LOS BANOS compares within CA
CA's 803 covered systems average 5.8 health-based violations each; CITY OF LOS BANOS carries 3, not more than typical for the state. 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 LOS BANOS is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF LOS BANOS'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
CITY OF LOS BANOS'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 LOS BANOS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,472th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.