Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA4400725

Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds

Serves 550 peopleGroundwaterOwner: Local GovernmentWatsonville, 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 2022: 6 violations. 2 treatment lapses · 3 missed or late tests · 1 notice or report. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
2Treatment lapse1 open
3Missed or late test
1Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 80% 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

20052010201520202022 · Treatment lapse: 12022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32022 · Missed or late test: 32024 · 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.
33% treatment lapse · 250% missed or late test · 317% 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 11 results on file · action level 15 ppb

43 ppb
40 ppb
33 ppb
6.9 ppb
5.4 ppb
4.4 ppb
3 ppb
1 ppb
0 ppb
0 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. 2022-05-20Lead and Copper RulePublic EducationBack in compliance
  4. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper Rule ×2Follow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  5. 2022-01-01Lead and Copper RuleWater Quality Parameter M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served550
Service connections35
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityWatsonville
EPA ZIP on file95076

Areas served

  • Santa Cruz County

Reading this record

Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 550 people in Watsonville, 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.