Community Water System · PWSID CA5400875

Village Apartments

Serves 33 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateThree Rivers, California
Nothing open right now.

On record since 2016: 6 violations. 1 over the limit · 3 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2020-01-01.

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
3Missed or late test
2Notice or report

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

2005201020152016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Over the limit: 12017 · Missed or late test: 12017 · Notice or report: 12019 · Missed or late test: 12020 · Missed or late test: 120202025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
17% over the limit · 150% missed or late test · 333% notice or report · 2

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 10 results on file · action level 15 ppb

699.2 ppb
49 ppb
23.5 ppb
7.4 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb
0 ppb

Copper, 90th percentile 1 result on file · action level 1.3 mg/L

2.4 mg/L

Every violation on record

  1. 2020-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  2. 2019-10-01Lead and Copper RuleFollow-up Or Routine LCR Tap M/RBack in compliance
  3. 2017-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2017-01-01NitrateMonitoring, RegularBack in compliance
  5. 2017-01-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLBack in compliance
  6. 2016-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance

System details

Population served33
Service connections2
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeCommunity Water System
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityThree Rivers
EPA ZIP on file93271

Areas served

  • Tulare County

Reading this record

Village Apartments is a community water system that draws from groundwater and serves about 33 people in Three Rivers, 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.