Santa Monica-City, Water Division, CA Water Quality
Is Santa Monica-City, Water Division's water safe to drink?
Santa Monica-City, Water Division's only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. 89,947 people get their water from it, across 16,884 connections.
How this compares nationally
Santa Monica-City, Water Division has 1 violation on record in total, 0 of them health-based - ranking it 12,247th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 5th percentile nationally.
Against the CA average
CA's 804 covered systems average 5.8 health-based violations each; Santa Monica-City, Water Division carries 0, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
What Santa Monica-City, Water Division's record does not cover
This is what Santa Monica-City, Water Division 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. Between the utility's meter and Santa Monica-City, Water Division's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 12,247th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.