GARBERVILLE SANITARY DISTRICT: EPA violation history, explained
GARBERVILLE SANITARY DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,041 people get their water from it, across 446 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
GARBERVILLE SANITARY DISTRICT has 2 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,168th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 29th percentile nationally.
How GARBERVILLE SANITARY DISTRICT compares within CA
GARBERVILLE SANITARY DISTRICT's 1 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. 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 GARBERVILLE SANITARY DISTRICT is from 2019-01-10 (health-based: 1993-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
GARBERVILLE SANITARY 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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 GARBERVILLE SANITARY DISTRICT 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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 2 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.