Placer Cwa - Colfax, CA Water Quality
Is Placer Cwa - Colfax's water safe to drink?
Placer Cwa - Colfax has no violations on record in EPA's SDWIS data. 3,149 people get their water from it, across 955 connections.
Placer Cwa - Colfax's record against the rest of the country
0 total violations and 0 health-based ones put Placer Cwa - Colfax at the 1th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 12,820 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
Placer Cwa - Colfax's 0 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 804 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Why "no violations" needs a caveat here
Placer Cwa - Colfax serves 3,149 people. EPA requires smaller systems to test less often than large ones, so a clean record here is real but weaker evidence than the same record on a system serving hundreds of thousands - fewer tests means fewer chances to catch a problem. See the guide to reading a clean record for what that does and does not tell you.
What Placer Cwa - Colfax's record does not cover
This is what Placer Cwa - Colfax 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 0 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.