DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in COALINGA-CITY's water?

COALINGA-CITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 17,277 people through 4,026 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

18 total violations and 14 health-based ones put COALINGA-CITY at the 89th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,397 of 12,903.

How COALINGA-CITY compares within CA

COALINGA-CITY's 14 health-based violations sit above the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for COALINGA-CITY is from 2016-01-10 (health-based: 2015-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

COALINGA-CITY'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

Everything on this page is COALINGA-CITY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and COALINGA-CITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,397th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.