Is USMC - 29 PALMS's water safe to drink?
USMC - 29 PALMS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 16,067 people get their water from it, across 2,480 connections.
How this compares nationally
USMC - 29 PALMS has 6 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,478th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 58th percentile nationally.
How USMC - 29 PALMS compares within CA
Among the 803 CA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.8 health-based violations - USMC - 29 PALMS'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 USMC - 29 PALMS is from 2014-01-03 (health-based: 2008-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
USMC - 29 PALMS'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)
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
USMC - 29 PALMS's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 6 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.