Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA1200648

Fernbridge Cafe

Serves 85 peopleGroundwater Under InfluenceOwner: PrivateFortuna, California
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2016: 6 violations. 6 treatment lapses. Most recent began 2023-01-01.

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

0Over the limit
6Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 80% 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

2005201020152016 · Treatment lapse: 42016 · Treatment lapse: 42016 · Treatment lapse: 42016 · Treatment lapse: 42017 · Treatment lapse: 120202023 · Treatment lapse: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% treatment lapse · 6

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2023-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Failure to Filter (SWTR)Back in compliance
  2. 2017-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  3. 2016-04-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  4. 2016-03-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  5. 2016-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance
  6. 2016-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served85
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater Under Influence
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityFortuna
EPA ZIP on file95540

Areas served

  • Humboldt County

Reading this record

Fernbridge Cafe is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater under influence and serves about 85 people in Fortuna, 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.