VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT: EPA violation history, explained
VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 113,500, over 28,954 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT ranks 5,564th by violation burden (57th percentile) - 4 violations total, 3 health-baseds.
How VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT compares within CA
CA's 803 covered systems average 5.8 health-based violations each; VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT carries 3, not more than typical for the state. 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 VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2018-01-07 (health-based: 2018-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and VENTURA WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,564th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.