DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in KERMAN, CITY OF's water?

KERMAN, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 17,256 people through 4,094 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, KERMAN, CITY OF ranks 4,367th by violation burden (66th percentile) - 11 violations total, 4 health-baseds.

How KERMAN, CITY OF compares within CA

Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - KERMAN, CITY OF's 4 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 KERMAN, CITY OF is from 2014-01-10 (health-based: 2004-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

KERMAN, 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:

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

KERMAN, 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 - 4 health-based violations on file for KERMAN, 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.