Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA1009129

Pg&E Balch Camp

Serves 56 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateAuberry, California
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2007: 4 violations. 1 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2015-12-01.

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

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

More violations on record than 71% 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

20052007 · Missed or late test: 12008 · Over the limit: 120102014 · Missed or late test: 12015 · Missed or late test: 1201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
25% over the limit · 175% missed or late test · 3

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2015-12-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  2. 2014-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  3. 2008-02-01Coliform (TCR)MCL, Monthly (TCR)Back in compliance
  4. 2007-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served56
Service connections28
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityAuberry
EPA ZIP on file93602

Areas served

  • Fresno County

Reading this record

Pg&E Balch Camp is a transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 56 people in Auberry, 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.