DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in CITY OF WINTERS's water?

CITY OF WINTERS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 7,115 people through 2,600 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

CITY OF WINTERS has 7 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,471th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 34th percentile nationally.

How CITY OF WINTERS compares within CA

CA's 803 covered systems average 5.8 health-based violations each; CITY OF WINTERS carries 1, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF WINTERS is from 2017-01-10 (health-based: 2007-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

CITY OF WINTERS'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:

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

CITY OF WINTERS'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 WINTERS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,471th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.