Pico Rivera - City, Water Dept., CA Water Quality
Pico Rivera - City, Water Dept.: EPA violation history, explained
Pico Rivera - 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. It serves 40,600 people through 9,474 service connections.
How this compares nationally
8 total violations and 2 health-based ones put Pico Rivera - City, Water Dept. at the 49th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,630 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
Pico Rivera - City, Water Dept.'s 2 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 804 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Pico Rivera - City, Water Dept.'s most recent violation on record is dated 2022-05-08, with the most recent health-based one dated 1994-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
Pico Rivera - 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:
- 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 Pico Rivera - City, Water Dept.'s record does not cover
Everything on this page is Pico Rivera - City, Water Dept.'s own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for Pico Rivera - City, Water Dept. - 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.