Lakewood - City, Water Dept., CA Water Quality
What's in Lakewood - City, Water Dept.'s water?
Lakewood - City, Water Dept. has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 66,135 people get their water from it, across 20,041 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
3 total violations and 1 health-based ones put Lakewood - City, Water Dept. at the 31th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,936 of 12,903.
How Lakewood - City, Water Dept. compares within CA
Among the 804 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - Lakewood - City, Water Dept.'s 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Lakewood - City, Water Dept. is from 2002-01-02 (health-based: 2002-01-02). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Lakewood - City, 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 Lakewood - City, 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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 3 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.