Is MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC's water safe to drink?
MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 5,250 people through 1,750 service connections.
How this compares nationally
MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC has 8 violations on record in total, 5 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,801th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 71th percentile nationally.
How MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC compares within LA
Among the 347 LA systems in this dataset, the average is 12.6 health-based violations - MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC's 5 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 MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 2020-07-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC'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); Groundwater 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
MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC'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 - 5 health-based violations on file for MONTEREY RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC - 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.