Is FILLMORE WATER DEPT's water safe to drink?
FILLMORE WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 16,419 people get their water from it, across 4,370 connections.
FILLMORE WATER DEPT's record against the rest of the country
FILLMORE WATER DEPT has 8 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,641th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 49th percentile nationally.
How FILLMORE WATER DEPT compares within CA
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - FILLMORE WATER DEPT's 2 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for FILLMORE WATER DEPT is from 2026-01-02 (health-based: 2006-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
FILLMORE WATER DEPT'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 FILLMORE WATER DEPT 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 FILLMORE WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,641th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.