Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA2702830

Op Murphy & Sons Ws

Serves 25 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateSoledad, 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 2020: 17 violations. 15 over the limit · 1 treatment lapse · 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.

15Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
0Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 92% 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 · Over the limit: 120202021 · Over the limit: 22021 · Over the limit: 22022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42022 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42023 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Over the limit: 42024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
88% over the limit · 156% treatment lapse · 16% 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×+Nitrate2024-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 44.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (4.4×)2024-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 76.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (7.6×)2024-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 40.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (4.0×)2024-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 29.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.9×)2023-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 36.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (3.6×)2023-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 36.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (3.6×)2023-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 74.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (7.4×)2023-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 19.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.9×)2022-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 22.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.2×)2022-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 20.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.0×)2022-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 74.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (7.4×)2022-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 77.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (7.7×)2021-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 22.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.2×)2021-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 18.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.8×)2020-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 44.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (4.4×)
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 3 results on file · action level 15 ppb

1.7 ppb
1.1 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (2)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2024-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 44.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2024-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 76.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2024-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 40.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2024-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 29.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  7. 2023-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 36.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2023-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 36.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2023-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 74.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  10. 2023-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 19.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  11. 2022-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 22.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  12. 2022-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 20.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  13. 2022-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 74.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  14. 2022-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 77.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  15. 2021-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 22.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  16. 2021-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 18.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  17. 2020-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 44.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CitySoledad
EPA ZIP on file93960

Areas served

  • Monterey County

Reading this record

Op Murphy & Sons Ws is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 25 people in Soledad, 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.