Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA5401063

Tharp Real Properties

Serves 60 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivatePorterville, California
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On record since 2007: 15 violations. 14 over the limit · 1 missed or late test. Most recent began 2021-01-01.

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

14Over the limit
0Treatment lapse
1Missed or late test
0Notice or report

More violations on record than 91% 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 · Over the limit: 12008 · Over the limit: 12008 · Missed or late test: 12009 · Over the limit: 12010 · Over the limit: 120102011 · Over the limit: 12012 · Over the limit: 22012 · Over the limit: 22013 · Over the limit: 22013 · Over the limit: 22014 · Over the limit: 120152020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 32020 · Over the limit: 320202021 · Over the limit: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
93% over the limit · 147% 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×+Nitrate2021-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 23.60 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (2.4×)2020-10-01 · Nitrate: measured 13.20 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.3×)2020-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.00 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.5×)2020-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 15.90 MG/L vs limit 10.00 MG/L (1.6×)2014-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 49.60 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.1×)2013-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 58.70 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.3×)2013-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 51.70 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.1×)2012-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 87.70 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.9×)2012-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 88.60 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (2.0×)2011-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 47.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.0×)2010-07-01 · Nitrate: measured 53.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2009-04-01 · Nitrate: measured 55.90 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.2×)2008-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 97.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (2.2×)2007-01-01 · Nitrate: measured 69.00 MG/L vs limit 45.00 MG/L (1.5×)
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 1 result on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 23.60 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  2. 2020-10-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 13.20 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  3. 2020-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.00 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  4. 2020-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 15.90 MG/L · limit 10.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  5. 2014-01-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 49.60 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  6. 2013-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 58.70 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  7. 2013-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 51.70 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  8. 2012-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 87.70 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  9. 2012-04-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 88.60 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  10. 2011-07-01NitrateMCL, Averagemeasured 47.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  11. 2010-07-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 53.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  12. 2009-04-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 55.90 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  13. 2008-07-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  14. 2008-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 97.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance
  15. 2007-01-01NitrateMCL, Single Samplemeasured 69.00 MG/L · limit 45.00 MG/LBack in compliance

System details

Population served60
Service connections3
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityPorterville
EPA ZIP on file93257

Areas served

  • Tulare County

Reading this record

Tharp Real Properties is a transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 60 people in Porterville, 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.