Is STANFORD UNIVERSITY's water safe to drink?
STANFORD UNIVERSITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 35,853 people through 1,474 service connections.
How this compares nationally
3 total violations and 3 health-based ones put STANFORD UNIVERSITY at the 57th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,608 of 12,903.
How STANFORD UNIVERSITY compares within CA
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - STANFORD UNIVERSITY's 3 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 STANFORD UNIVERSITY is from 2016-01-10 (health-based: 2016-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
STANFORD UNIVERSITY'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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 STANFORD UNIVERSITY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for STANFORD UNIVERSITY - 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.