Is ELK GROVE WATER DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
ELK GROVE WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 43,813, over 13,098 connections.
How this compares nationally
6 total violations and 4 health-based ones put ELK GROVE WATER DISTRICT at the 65th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,534 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - ELK GROVE WATER DISTRICT's 4 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
ELK GROVE WATER DISTRICT's most recent violation on record is dated 2008-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2008-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
ELK GROVE WATER DISTRICT'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)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Arsenic
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 ELK GROVE WATER DISTRICT's record does not cover
ELK GROVE WATER DISTRICT'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 ELK GROVE WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,534th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.