Community Water System · PWSID CA5410038

Terra Bella Irrigation District - Tbt

Serves 2,656 peopleSurface WaterOwner: Local GovernmentTerra Bella, California
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On record since 2014: 24 violations. 21 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests. Most recent began 2024-10-01.

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

21Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
3Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 94% 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

200520102014 · Over the limit: 22014 · Over the limit: 22015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Over the limit: 82015 · Missed or late test: 120152016 · Over the limit: 82016 · Over the limit: 82016 · Over the limit: 82016 · Over the limit: 82016 · Over the limit: 82016 · Over the limit: 82016 · Over the limit: 82016 · Over the limit: 82016 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 32017 · Over the limit: 320202024 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
88% over the limit · 2113% missed or late test · 3

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×+Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)Trihalomethanes (TTHM)2017-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0700 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2017-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0930 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.2×)2017-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0840 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.4×)2016-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1100 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.4×)2016-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.1060 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.8×)2016-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1360 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.7×)2016-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.1350 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (2.3×)2016-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.1270 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (2.1×)2016-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1270 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.6×)2016-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.1390 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (2.3×)2016-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1460 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.8×)2015-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.1310 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (2.2×)2015-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1500 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.9×)2015-07-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.1150 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.9×)2015-07-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1360 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.7×)2015-04-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.1120 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.9×)2015-04-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1440 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.8×)2015-01-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0710 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2015-01-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.1030 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 MG/L (1.3×)2014-10-01 · Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5): measured 0.0690 MG/L vs limit 0.0600 MG/L (1.2×)2014-10-01 · Trihalomethanes (TTHM): measured 0.0900 MG/L vs limit 0.0800 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

0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  2. 2017-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0700 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2017-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0930 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0840 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2016-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1100 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2016-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1060 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2016-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1360 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2016-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1350 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2016-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1270 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2016-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1270 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2016-04-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  12. 2016-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1390 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2016-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1460 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  14. 2015-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1310 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2015-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1500 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  16. 2015-07-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1150 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  17. 2015-07-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1360 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  18. 2015-04-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1120 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  19. 2015-04-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1440 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  20. 2015-01-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0710 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  21. 2015-01-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.1030 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance
  22. 2015-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  23. 2014-10-01Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0690 MG/L · limit 0.0600 MG/LBack in compliance
  24. 2014-10-01Trihalomethanes (TTHM)MCL, Averagemeasured 0.0900 MG/L · limit 0.0800 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served2,656
Service connections804
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerLocal Government
StatusActive
CityTerra Bella
EPA ZIP on file93270

Areas served

  • Tulare County

Reading this record

Terra Bella Irrigation District - Tbt is a community water system that draws from surface water and serves about 2,656 people in Terra Bella, 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.