Is POPLAR COMM SERVICE DIST's water safe to drink?
POPLAR COMM SERVICE DIST has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,200 people through 597 service connections.
How this compares nationally
13 total violations and 5 health-based ones put POPLAR COMM SERVICE DIST at the 71th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,694 of 12,903.
How POPLAR COMM SERVICE DIST compares within CA
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - POPLAR COMM SERVICE DIST's 5 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for POPLAR COMM SERVICE DIST is from 2019-01-10 (health-based: 2014-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
POPLAR COMM SERVICE DIST'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)
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
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
This is what POPLAR COMM SERVICE DIST 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. This record - 5 health-based violations on file for POPLAR COMM SERVICE DIST - 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.