Is GSWC - ARTESIA's water safe to drink?
GSWC - ARTESIA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 50,415 people through 10,830 service connections.
GSWC - ARTESIA's record against the rest of the country
GSWC - ARTESIA has 3 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,942th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 31th percentile nationally.
How GSWC - ARTESIA compares within CA
CA's 803 covered systems average 5.8 health-based violations each; GSWC - ARTESIA carries 1, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for GSWC - ARTESIA is from 2005-01-09 (health-based: 2005-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
GSWC - ARTESIA'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
Everything on this page is GSWC - ARTESIA's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for GSWC - ARTESIA - 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.