What's in TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT's water?
TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 18,795 people get their water from it, across 7,400 connections.
How this compares nationally
71 total violations and 70 health-based ones put TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT at the 99th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 153 of 12,903.
How TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT compares within CA
TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT's 70 health-based violations sit above the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. 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 TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT is from 1993-01-01 (health-based: 1993-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT'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: Coliform (TCR)
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Fluoride
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 TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT 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 TWENTYNINE PALMS WATER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 153th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.