Is RUSSIAN RIVER COUNTY WATER DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
RUSSIAN RIVER COUNTY WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,150 people get their water from it, across 1,197 connections.
How this compares nationally
RUSSIAN RIVER COUNTY WATER DISTRICT has 4 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,888th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 31th percentile nationally.
How RUSSIAN RIVER COUNTY WATER DISTRICT compares within CA
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - RUSSIAN RIVER COUNTY WATER DISTRICT's 1 is at or below that. 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 RUSSIAN RIVER COUNTY WATER DISTRICT is from 2004-01-05 (health-based: 2004-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
RUSSIAN RIVER COUNTY WATER DISTRICT'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 RUSSIAN RIVER COUNTY WATER DISTRICT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for RUSSIAN RIVER COUNTY WATER DISTRICT - 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.