Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA1503515

Sun Pacific Shippers-Maricopa Water Sys.

Serves 100 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateBakersfield, California
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On record since 2006: 29 violations. 28 over the limit · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2022-04-01.

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

28Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 95% 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

20052006 · Missed or late test: 120102011 · Over the limit: 22011 · Over the limit: 22012 · Over the limit: 22012 · Over the limit: 22013 · Over the limit: 42013 · Over the limit: 42013 · Over the limit: 42013 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42014 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 42015 · Over the limit: 420152016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42016 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42017 · Over the limit: 42018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 32018 · Over the limit: 320202022 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
97% over the limit · 283% missed or late test · 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×+Nitrate2018-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 16.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)2018-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 17.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.7×)2018-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 17.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.7×)2017-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 18.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.8×)2017-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 17.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.7×)2017-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 16.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)2017-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 16.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)2016-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.5×)2016-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 16.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)2016-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 14.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.4×)2016-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.5×)2015-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.5×)2015-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.5×)2015-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 61.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.4×)2015-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 64.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.4×)2014-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 58.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.3×)2014-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 56.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2014-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 54.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2014-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 55.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2013-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 55.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2013-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 51.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.1×)2013-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 47.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.0×)2013-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 47.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.0×)2012-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 53.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2012-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 48.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.1×)2011-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 49.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.1×)2011-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 49.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.1×)
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

5 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2022-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  2. 2018-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 16.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2018-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 17.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2018-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 17.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2017-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 18.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2017-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 17.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2017-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 16.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2017-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 16.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2016-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2016-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 16.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2016-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 14.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2016-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2015-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2015-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2015-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 61.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2015-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 64.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2014-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 58.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2014-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 56.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2014-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 54.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2014-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 55.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2013-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 55.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2013-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 51.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  23. 2013-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 47.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2013-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 47.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  25. 2012-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 53.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
Show the other 4 entries
  1. 2012-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 48.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2011-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 49.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2011-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 49.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2006-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance

System details

Population served100
Service connections5
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityBakersfield
EPA ZIP on file93308

Areas served

  • Kern County

Reading this record

Sun Pacific Shippers-Maricopa Water Sys. is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 100 people in Bakersfield, 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.