Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA2708852

Faith and Family Farms Ws

Serves 47 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSalinas, 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 2020: 10 violations. 9 over the limit · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2024-01-01.

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

9Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test1 open
0Notice 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

2005201020152020 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Over the limit: 12022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
90% over the limit · 910% missed or late test · 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×+Nitrate2024-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 114.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (11.4×)2023-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 111.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (11.1×)2023-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 105.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (10.5×)2023-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 113.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (11.3×)2023-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 114.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (11.4×)2022-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 102.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (10.2×)2022-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 116.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (11.6×)2022-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 103.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (10.3×)2021-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 108.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (10.8×)
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 7 results on file · action level 15 ppb

9.9 ppb
1.7 ppb
1 ppb
0.8 ppb
0.6 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (1)

  1. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 114.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2023-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 111.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2023-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 105.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2023-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 113.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2023-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 114.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 102.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2022-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 116.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2022-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 103.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 108.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-01-01Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

System details

Population served47
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySalinas
EPA ZIP on file93908

Areas served

  • Monterey County

Reading this record

Faith and Family Farms Ws is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 47 people in Salinas, 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.