Is CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 99,323 people through 27,504 service connections.
How this compares nationally
3 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT at the 31th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,925 of 12,903.
How CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT compares within CA
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT's 1 is at or below that. 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 SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2011-01-02 (health-based: 1996-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT'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
Everything on this page is CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for CITY OF SANTA BARBARA WATER DEPARTMENT - 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.