Pauma: EPA violation history, explained
Pauma has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,700 people get their water from it, across 80 connections.
How this compares nationally
Pauma has 124 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,215th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 44th percentile nationally.
How Pauma compares within CA
CA's 803 covered systems average 5.8 health-based violations each; Pauma 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 Pauma is from 2027-11-01 (health-based: 1991-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Pauma'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
Everything on this page is Pauma's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and Pauma's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,215th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.