Non-Transient Non-Community · PWSID CA3301305

White's Steel, Inc.

Serves 85 peopleGroundwaterOwner: PrivateThermal, California
1 open treatment violation.

Open for: Lead service line inventory. EPA counts treatment-technique violations as health-based: a required protective step was not done. It is not a measurement of contamination.

On record since 1996: 22 violations. 1 treatment lapse · 15 missed or late tests · 6 notices or reports. Most recent began 2024-10-17.

None of them is a measurement of contaminated water.

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

0Over the limit
1Treatment lapse1 open
15Missed or late test1 open
6Notice or report2 open

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

1996 · Missed or late test: 31996 · Missed or late test: 31996 · Missed or late test: 31999 · Missed or late test: 21999 · Missed or late test: 22000 · Missed or late test: 120002001 · Missed or late test: 52001 · Missed or late test: 52001 · Missed or late test: 52001 · Missed or late test: 52001 · Missed or late test: 52002 · Missed or late test: 22002 · Missed or late test: 22003 · Missed or late test: 12004 · Notice or report: 32004 · Notice or report: 32004 · Notice or report: 32005 · Missed or late test: 12005 · Notice or report: 120052006 · Notice or report: 12010201520202024 · Treatment lapse: 12024 · Notice or report: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
5% treatment lapse · 168% missed or late test · 1527% notice or report · 6

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 2 results on file · action level 15 ppb

0 ppb
0 ppb

Open now (4)

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  4. 2001-11-14Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryRPTOpen
  2. 2024-10-17Lead service line inventoryTTOpen
  3. 2006-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  4. 2005-07-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  5. 2005-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  6. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence RuleCCR Complete Failure to ReportOpen
  7. 2004-07-01Consumer Confidence Rule ×2CCR Complete Failure to ReportBack in compliance
  8. 2003-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  9. 2002-02-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  10. 2002-01-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  11. 2001-11-14Lead and Copper RuleInitial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuOpen
  12. 2001-11-14Lead and Copper Rule ×2Initial Tap Sampling for Pb and CuBack in compliance
  13. 2001-11-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  14. 2001-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  15. 2000-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  16. 1999-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Minor (TCR)Back in compliance
  17. 1999-04-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  18. 1996-10-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  19. 1996-09-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance
  20. 1996-06-01Coliform (TCR)Monitoring, Routine Major (TCR)Back in compliance

System details

Population served85
Service connections1
Water sourceGroundwater
System typeNon-Transient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityThermal
EPA ZIP on file92274

Areas served

  • Riverside County

Reading this record

White's Steel, Inc. is a non-transient non-community that draws from groundwater and serves about 85 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.