PADRE DAM MWD: EPA violation history, explained
PADRE DAM MWD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 93,980 people through 23,354 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
PADRE DAM MWD has 2 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,075th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 30th percentile nationally.
How PADRE DAM MWD compares within CA
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - PADRE DAM MWD'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 PADRE DAM MWD is from 1995-01-03 (health-based: 1995-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PADRE DAM MWD'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
PADRE DAM MWD'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. Between the utility's meter and PADRE DAM MWD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 9,075th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.