Is CITY OF SANTA CLARA's water safe to drink?
CITY OF SANTA CLARA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 130,746 people through 26,113 service connections.
How this compares nationally
3 total violations and 2 health-based ones put CITY OF SANTA CLARA at the 46th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,982 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
CITY OF SANTA CLARA's 2 health-based violations sit within 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 SANTA CLARA's most recent violation on record is dated 1995-01-03, with the most recent health-based one dated 1995-01-03. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF SANTA CLARA'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: 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 SANTA CLARA's record does not cover
CITY OF SANTA CLARA'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 SANTA CLARA's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,982th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.