Is EL CENTRO, CITY OF's water safe to drink?
EL CENTRO, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 43,772, over 10,229 connections.
EL CENTRO, CITY OF's record against the rest of the country
EL CENTRO, CITY OF has 6 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,529th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 34th percentile nationally.
Against the CA average
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - EL CENTRO, CITY OF's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
EL CENTRO, CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2014-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2002-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
EL CENTRO, CITY OF'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What EL CENTRO, CITY OF's record does not cover
EL CENTRO, CITY OF'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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for EL CENTRO, CITY OF - 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.