Drinking water quality · 2023
· Verified
· PWSID CA1910036
What's in California Water Service Co. - Ela — San Jose, Ca, CA tap water
Every one of the 16 core regulated contaminants reported for California Water Service Co. - Ela — San Jose, Ca, CA came in below its federal limit.
- !16 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 11 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
- −0 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
- −5 core regulated contaminants never reported (16/27)
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 →+39 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Bromate | 7.9 ug/L | 10 ug/L |
| TTHM | 45 ug/L | 80 ug/L |
| Chlorine | 2.1 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| HAA5 | 19 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Nitrate | 3.1 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Copper | 0.33 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Fluoride | 0.7 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Turbidity | 0.08 NTU | 1 NTU |
| Barium | 124 ug/L | 2000 ug/L |
| Bromodichloroacetic acid | Not detected ug/L | — |
| Chlorate | 80 ug/L | 800 ug/L |
| N-Nitrosodi-n-butylamine | 2.5 ug/L | 50 ug/L |
| NDMA | 2.5 ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| Perchlorate | Not detected ug/L | — |
| Aluminum | 93 ug/L | — |
| Arsenic | Not detected ug/L | 10 ug/L |
| Boron | 170 ug/L | 1000 ug/L |
| Calcium | 74 mg/L | — |
| Chromium, Hexavalent | 1.4 ug/L | — |
| Lead | 0.0 mg/L | 0.015 mg/L |
| Lithium | 40 ug/L | — |
| Magnesium | 26 mg/L | — |
| Potassium | 5 mg/L | — |
| Sodium | 105 mg/L | — |
| Vanadium | Not detected ug/L | 50 ug/L |
| Total Coliform | 0.1 % | — |
| Pce | Not detected ug/L | 5 ug/L |
| Tce | Not detected ug/L | 5 ug/L |
| PFBA | 4.1 ng/L | — |
| PFOA | Not detected ng/L | 4 ng/L |
| Alkalinity | 167 mg/L | — |
| Hardness | 272 mg/L | — |
| pH | 8.7 | — |
| TOC | 2.6 mg/L | — |
| Total Dissolved Solids | 590 mg/L | — |
| Combined Radium | Not detected pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Gross Alpha | Not detected pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| Gross Beta Particle Activity | 4 pCi/L | — |
| Uranium | 2 pCi/L | 20 pCi/L |
What this report doesn't tell you
11 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in California Water Service Co. - Ela — San Jose, 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 Apr 1996resolved
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗