Community Water System · PWSID CA3710702

Camp Pendleton (South)

Serves 42,219 peopleGroundwaterOwner: FederalCamp Pendleton, California
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On record since 2002: 10 violations. 3 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 5 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2018-01-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

3Over the limit
1Treatment lapse
5Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 87% of active water systems in California. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

2002 · Notice or report: 1200520102011 · Missed or late test: 12014 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 12017 · Missed or late test: 22017 · Missed or late test: 22018 · Over the limit: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
30% over the limit · 310% treatment lapse · 150% missed or late test · 510% notice or report · 1

Across California, 52% of violations are missed or late tests and 29% are water over a limit.

How far over the limit

at the limit2×5×10×100×+Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2018-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0810 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0810 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.0×)
Each dot is one over-the-limit violation: the measured value divided by the limit it broke, on a log scale. Most legal limits for chemicals are running averages set for a lifetime of drinking, so “just over” and “ten times over” are very different news. Hover a dot for the numbers.

Lead & copper at the tap

Utilities sample taps in homes most likely to have lead pipes, and report the 90th-percentile result: 9 in 10 homes sampled came in at or below this number. Above the red line (the action level) the utility must act. The action level is not a safe level; EPA's health goal for lead is zero. EPA's file does not date these results, so they are shown highest first.

Lead, 90th percentile 6 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0.63 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2018-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2017-10-01Gross Alpha Particle ActivityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2017-07-01Gross Alpha Particle ActivityMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  4. 2017-06-26DBP Stage 1Treatment Technique No Certif. OperatorBack in compliance
  5. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0810 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2016-03-25E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  7. 2016-03-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  8. 2014-11-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  9. 2011-06-01E. ColiMonitoring, Source Water (GWR)Back in compliance
  10. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served42,219
Service connections8,052
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerFederal
StatusActive
CityCamp Pendleton
EPA ZIP on file92055-5013

Areas served

  • San Diego County

Reading this record

Camp Pendleton (South) is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 42,219 people in Camp Pendleton, California. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.