Drinking water quality · 2023
· Verified
· PWSID CA3310001
What's in Coachella Vwd: Cove Community — Palm Desert, Ca, CA tap water
Every one of the 14 core regulated contaminants reported for Coachella Vwd: Cove Community — Palm Desert, 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
- Nitrate90% of the federal limit0–9 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
+27 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | 0–3 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Turbidity | 0–0.6 NTU | 1 NTU |
| Arsenic | 0–4.4 ug/L | 10 ug/L |
| Combined Radium | 0–2.1 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| HAA5 | 0–18 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Gross Alpha | 0–4.5 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| TTHM | 0–20 ug/L | 80 ug/L |
| Fluoride | 0–1 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Chromium | 12–23 ug/L | 100 ug/L |
| DBCP | 0–45 ng/L | 200 ng/L |
| Selenium | 0–5.1 ug/L | 50 ug/L |
| Copper | 0.1 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Perchlorate | 0–2.6 ug/L | 1 ug/L |
| Bromide | 25–160 ug/L | — |
| Chloride | 0.9–120 mg/L | — |
| Sulfate | 3.3–320 mg/L | — |
| Chromium, Hexavalent | 13–23 ug/L | 0.02 ug/L |
| Germanium | 0–0.35 ug/L | — |
| Iron | 0–180 ug/L | — |
| Manganese | 0–1.6 ug/L | — |
| Sodium | 0–110 mg/L | — |
| Total Coliform | 0–0.7 % | 0 % |
| Hardness | 8.4–310 mg/L | — |
| pH | 7.3–8.3 | — |
| Specific Conductance | 240–1100 | — |
| Total Dissolved Solids | 110–680 mg/L | — |
| Uranium | 0–13 pCi/L | 0.43 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 Coachella Vwd: Cove Community — Palm Desert, 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.