Torrance-City, Water Dept., CA Water Quality
Is Torrance-City, Water Dept.'s water safe to drink?
Torrance-City, Water Dept.'s only violations on record are reporting or monitoring lapses, not a contaminant or treatment-technique failure EPA classifies as health-based. It serves 106,183 people through 26,830 service connections.
Torrance-City, Water Dept.'s record against the rest of the country
26 total violations and 0 health-based ones put Torrance-City, Water Dept. at the 24th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 9,868 of 12,903.
How Torrance-City, Water Dept. compares within CA
Among the 804 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - Torrance-City, Water Dept.'s 0 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 Torrance-City, Water Dept. is from 2012-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What this data is and is not
This is what Torrance-City, Water Dept. 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 Torrance-City, Water Dept.'s customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 9,868th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.