Community Water System · PWSID CA2700594

Hidden Valley Wa

Serves 87 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSalinas, California
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 2016: 14 violations. 1 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 11 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

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

1Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
11Missed or late test1 open
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 90% 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 · Over the limit: 12019 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12022 · Missed or late test: 12023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52023 · Missed or late test: 52024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Missed or late test: 32024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
7% over the limit · 17% treatment lapse · 179% missed or late test · 117% notice or report · 1

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

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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (3)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2024-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2023-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/ROpen
  7. 2023-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-04-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-10-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2021-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2019-01-01Nitrate-NitriteMonitoring, RegularPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2016-02-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served87
Service connections32
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySalinas
EPA ZIP on file93907

Areas served

  • Monterey County

Reading this record

Hidden Valley Wa is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 87 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.