What's in CWS - BAKERSFIELD's water?
CWS - BAKERSFIELD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 267,881, over 65,415 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CWS - BAKERSFIELD has 5 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,515th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 57th percentile nationally.
How CWS - BAKERSFIELD compares within CA
CA's 803 covered systems average 5.8 health-based violations each; CWS - BAKERSFIELD carries 3, not more than typical for the state. 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 CWS - BAKERSFIELD is from 2010-01-01 (health-based: 2002-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CWS - BAKERSFIELD'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
This is what CWS - BAKERSFIELD reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and CWS - BAKERSFIELD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,515th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.