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SOLEDAD, CITY OF: EPA violation history, explained

SOLEDAD, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 19,455 people through 4,427 service connections.

SOLEDAD, CITY OF's record against the rest of the country

SOLEDAD, CITY OF has 13 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,170th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 60th percentile nationally.

How SOLEDAD, CITY OF compares within CA

Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - SOLEDAD, CITY OF's 3 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for SOLEDAD, CITY OF is from 2009-01-12 (health-based: 2009-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

SOLEDAD, CITY OF'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:

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 SOLEDAD, CITY OF 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 SOLEDAD, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,170th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.