Drinking water quality · 2023
· Verified
· PWSID CA1010001
What's in Bakman Water Company — Fresno, Ca, CA tap water
Every measured contaminant in Bakman Water Company — Fresno, Ca, CA was below its federal limit, but the system carries 1 open health-based violation.
- !1 open health-based violation on the federal record
- !2 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- !12 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 15 never appear in this report
- ✓Nothing over a federal limit
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −0 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −8 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −15 open health-based violations
- −3 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −0 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −11 core regulated contaminants never reported (12/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →What to worry about
- PFOA98% of the federal limit0–3.9 ng/L · limit 4 ng/L
Linked to cancer, liver damage, and immune effects; the EPA set an enforceable limit of 4 parts per trillion.
Higher than 50% of CA systems that report it · higher than 35% of U.S. systems
- Nitrate90% of the federal limit2–9 mg/L · limit 10 mg/L
Levels above the federal limit can cause 'blue baby syndrome,' a serious oxygen-transport condition in infants.
Higher than 95% of CA systems that report it · higher than 95% of U.S. systems
+14 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha | 0.556–5.29 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| Arsenic | 0–3.3 ug/L | 10 ug/L |
| Chlorine | 0.2–1 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| DBCP | 0–50 ng/L | 200 ng/L |
| Barium | 0–0.2 mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Copper | 0.064 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Fluoride | 0–0.16 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| TTHM | 0–0.76 ug/L | 80 ug/L |
| Aluminum | 0–0.34 mg/L | — |
| Chromium, Hexavalent | 0.94–2.9 ug/L | — |
| Lead | Not detected ug/L | 15 ug/L |
| Escherichia coli (E. coli) | 0 | 0 |
| Perfluorobutanesulfonic acid | 0–2.1 ng/L | 500 ng/L |
| 1,2,3-TCP | 0–7.7 ng/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
15 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Bakman Water Company — Fresno, Ca, CA's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record
Compliance history
Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.
- Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based3 violations on record · most recent Aug 2014resolved
- Treatment technique violationHealth-based1 violation on record · most recent Oct 20241 open
- Reporting1 violation on record · most recent Oct 20241 open
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗