Is SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON's water safe to drink?
SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,930 people get their water from it, across 2,209 connections.
How this compares nationally
4 total violations and 2 health-based ones put SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON at the 46th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,967 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON's 2 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON's most recent violation on record is dated 2021-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2004-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON'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:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON's record does not cover
SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for SALINAS VALLEY STATE PRISON - 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.