Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA1503648

Grace Community Church Water System

Serves 52 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateShafter, California
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On record since 2008: 5 violations. 5 over the limit. Most recent began 2015-10-01.

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

5Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
0Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 76% 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

20052008 · Over the limit: 120102011 · Over the limit: 12015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 32015 · Over the limit: 3201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
100% over the limit · 5

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2015-10-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 2015-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  3. 2015-06-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  4. 2011-07-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  5. 2008-12-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served52
Service connections4
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityShafter
EPA ZIP on file93313

Areas served

  • Kern County

Reading this record

Grace Community Church Water System is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 52 people in Shafter, 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.