Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA1502012

Heck Cellars Water System

Serves 47 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateDigiorgio, California
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On record since 2001: 23 violations. 19 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2025-04-01.

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19Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
1Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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

2001 · Missed or late test: 22001 · Missed or late test: 22002 · Notice or report: 12005201020152016 · Over the limit: 22016 · Over the limit: 22018 · Over the limit: 12018 · Missed or late test: 12019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42019 · Over the limit: 42020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 320202021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32021 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32022 · Over the limit: 32024 · Over the limit: 12025 · Over the limit: 22025 · Over the limit: 22025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
83% over the limit · 1913% missed or late test · 34% 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×+Nitrate1, 2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane2019-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 17.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.7×)2019-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 21.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.1×)2018-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2016-10-01 · 1, 2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane: measured 0.000300 MG/L vs limit 0.000200 MG/L (1.5×)2016-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 20.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.0×)
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 4 results on file · action level 15 ppb

11 ppb
0.6 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2025-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2025-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2024-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2022-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2022-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 12.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2022-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2021-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 14.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2021-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 18.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2021-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2020-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 14.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2020-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 14.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2020-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 16.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2019-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 17.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2019-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 21.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2019-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 16.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2019-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2018-09-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  18. 2018-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  19. 2016-10-011, 2-Dibromo-3-ChloropropaneMCL, Averagemeasured 0.000300 MG/L · limit 0.000200 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 20.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  21. 2002-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  22. 2001-10-10Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  23. 2001-10-09Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served47
Service connections8
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityDigiorgio
EPA ZIP on file93203

Areas served

  • Kern County

Reading this record

Heck Cellars Water System is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 47 people in Digiorgio, 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.