Drinking water quality · 2023

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· PWSID CA3010100

What's in City of La Palma — La Palma, Ca, CA tap water

B
Water quality score
86/ 100Good

Every one of the 10 core regulated contaminants reported for City of La Palma — La Palma, Ca, CA came in below its federal limit.

  • !10 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 17 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
  • −14  core regulated contaminants never reported (10/27)

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 →
Nothing here is over a federal limit. Every contaminant reported in this year's data came in below its federal threshold, and none sat within 20% of one.
+31 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
ContaminantMeasured
Arsenic7.4 ug/L
Turbidity0.7 NTU
TTHM13 ug/L
Copper0.17 mg/L
Chlorine0.51 mg/L
Fluoride0.44 mg/L
HAA54 ug/L
Dibromoacetic acid0.8 ug/L
Bromochloroacetic acid0.7 ug/L
Chlorodibromoacetic acid0.5 ug/L
Dichloroacetic acid0.4 ug/L
Bromodichloroacetic acidNot detected ug/L
Bromide0.049 mg/L
Chloride17 mg/L
Sulfate50.2 mg/L
BariumNot detected mg/L
Calcium43 mg/L
LeadNot detected ug/L
Magnesium9.3 mg/L
Manganese48 ug/L
Potassium2.1 mg/L
Sodium51 mg/L
Alkalinity177 mg/L
Color10
Hardness147 mg/L
Odor1.1
pH8
Specific Conductance480
TOC0.15 mg/L
Total Dissolved Solids294 mg/L
UraniumNot detected pCi/L

What this report doesn't tell you

17 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in City of La Palma — La Palma, Ca, CA's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.

Nitrate / nitriteColiform bacteriaChromiumSeleniumAntimonyCadmiumMercuryThalliumBerylliumCyanideRadiumGross alpha radiationAtrazine / 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.

  • Monitoring
    1 violation on record
    resolved

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

Source: City of La Palma — La Palma, 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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