Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA3301732

Tequila Market

Serves 150 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateThermal, California
Nothing open right now.

On record since 1983: 13 violations. 1 over the limit · 9 missed or late tests · 3 notices or reports. Most recent began 2013-01-01.

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
9Missed or late test
3Notice or report

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

1983 · Missed or late test: 11983 · Notice or report: 11984 · Over the limit: 11984 · Missed or late test: 11984 · Notice or report: 21984 · Notice or report: 21985199019951996 · Missed or late test: 11999 · Missed or late test: 21999 · Missed or late test: 22000 · Missed or late test: 120002002 · Missed or late test: 12003 · Missed or late test: 1200520102013 · Missed or late test: 1201520202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
8% over the limit · 169% missed or late test · 923% notice or report · 3

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

Every violation on record

  1. 2013-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  2. 2003-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  3. 2002-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  4. 2000-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)System inactive
  5. 1999-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  6. 1999-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  7. 1996-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)System inactive
  8. 1984-05-01Unknown contaminantNotification, PublicSystem inactive
  9. 1984-05-01FluorideMCL, Single SampleSystem inactive
  10. 1984-03-01Unknown contaminantNotification, PublicSystem inactive
  11. 1984-03-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive
  12. 1983-12-01Unknown contaminantNotification, PublicSystem inactive
  13. 1983-12-01Coliform (Pre-TCR)Monitoring, RegularSystem inactive

System details

Population served150
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityThermal
EPA ZIP on file92274

Areas served

  • Riverside County

Reading this record

Tequila Market is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 150 people in Thermal, 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.