Is LOMITA-CITY, WATER DEPT.'s water safe to drink?
LOMITA-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. 20,256 people get their water from it, across 4,456 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
LOMITA-CITY, WATER DEPT. has 2 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,100th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 29th percentile nationally.
How LOMITA-CITY, WATER DEPT. compares within CA
CA's 803 covered systems average 5.8 health-based violations each; LOMITA-CITY, WATER DEPT. carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for LOMITA-CITY, WATER DEPT. is from 2018-01-07 (health-based: 2016-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LOMITA-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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is LOMITA-CITY, WATER DEPT.'s own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your 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.