Drinking water quality · 2023

· Verified

· PWSID CA1910156

What's in Beverly Hills-city, Water Dept. — Beverly Hills, Ca, CA tap water

B
Water quality score
88/ 100Watch

Every one of the 14 core regulated contaminants reported for Beverly Hills-city, Water Dept. — Beverly Hills, Ca, CA came in below its federal limit.

  • !1 contaminant within 20% of a limit
  • !14 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 13 never appear in this report
  • Nothing over a federal limit
  • No open federal violations
+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
  • 4  contaminants within 20% of a limit
  • 0  open health-based violations
  • 0  open monitoring / reporting violations
  • 0  health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
  • 8  core regulated contaminants never reported (14/27)

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

  • Bromate92% of the federal limit
    0–9.2 ug/L · limit 10 ug/L

    Classified as a probable human carcinogen; the EPA sets a strict maximum contaminant level.

    Higher than 95% of CA systems that report it · higher than 95% of U.S. systems

+26 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
ContaminantMeasured
Chlorine Total0.77–2.7 mg/L
Turbidity0–0.5 NTU
TTHM28–37 ug/L
Gross Alpha0–5.4 pCi/L
Combined Radium0–1.6 pCi/L
Fluoride0–0.96 mg/L
HAA54.2–13 ug/L
Copper240 ug/L
Arsenic0–0.87 ug/L
Barium124 ug/L
Nitrate0.5 mg/L
Lead0.0006 mg/L
Chlorate80 ug/L
NitriteNot detected mg/L
Aluminum0–150 ug/L
Boron170 ug/L
Calcium5.5–11 mg/L
Chromium, Hexavalent0.01–0.12 ug/L
Lithium32–47 ug/L
Strontium0–1.1 pCi/L
Total ColiformNot detected %
pH8.2–8.3
TOC2.1–2.6 mg/L
Total Dissolved Solids506–680 mg/L
Gross Beta Particle Activity0–5 pCi/L
Uranium2–3 pCi/L

What this report doesn't tell you

13 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Beverly Hills-city, Water Dept. — Beverly Hills, Ca, CA's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.

Disinfectant residualSeleniumAntimonyCadmiumMercuryThalliumBerylliumCyanideAtrazine / simazineTetrachloroethylene (PCE)Trichloroethylene (TCE)BenzenePFAS
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+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-based
    1 violation on record · most recent Dec 2012
    resolved

Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗

Source: Beverly Hills-city, Water Dept. — Beverly Hills, Ca, CA's 2023 Consumer Confidence Report — the annual drinking-water report every U.S. utility is required to publish. The numbers on this page are the utility's own. A water-quality report covers an entire service area, not a single address.
The grade at the top of this page is computed, not editorial. See exactly how we grade water systems — every deduction, every ceiling, every threshold.

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