Paramount - City, Water Dept., CA Water Quality
Is Paramount - City, Water Dept.'s water safe to drink?
Paramount - City, Water Dept.'s only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. 55,200 people get their water from it, across 7,564 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Paramount - City, Water Dept. has 3 violations on record in total, 0 of them health-based - ranking it 11,562th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 10th percentile nationally.
Against the CA average
CA's 804 covered systems average 5.8 health-based violations each; Paramount - City, Water Dept. carries 0, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
Paramount - City, Water Dept.'s most recent violation on record is dated 2020-01-05. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What Paramount - City, Water Dept.'s record does not cover
This is what Paramount - 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.