Community Water System · PWSID CA0707603

Clayton Palms Water

Serves 549 peopleSurface Water PurchasedOwner: PrivateClayton, California
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2024: 1 violation. 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test1 open
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 36% 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

20052010201520202024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% missed or late test · 1

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

Open now (1)

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

System details

Population served549
Service connections202
Water sourceSurface Water Purchased
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityClayton
EPA ZIP on file94517

Areas served

  • Contra Costa County

Reading this record

Clayton Palms Water is a community water system that draws from surface water purchased and serves about 549 people in Clayton, 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.