Drinking water quality · 2020
· Verified
· PWSID CA2710016
What's in Little Bear Water Company — Soledad, Ca, CA tap water
Every measured contaminant in Little Bear Water Company — Soledad, 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
- !13 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 14 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
- −0 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −15 open health-based violations
- −0 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −0 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −9 core regulated contaminants never reported (13/27)
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 →+18 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | 2.7 ug/L | 10 ug/L |
| Lead | 0.0037 mg/L | 0.015 mg/L |
| TTHM | 8–17 ug/L | 80 ug/L |
| Chlorine Total | 0.8 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Nitrate | 1.7–1.9 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Copper | 0.2 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Gross Alpha | 2.29 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| Selenium | 7.1 ug/L | 50 ug/L |
| HAA5 | 4 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Fluoride | 0.2 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Cadmium | 0.2 ug/L | 5 ug/L |
| Chromium, Total | 2.4 ug/L | 100 ug/L |
| Barium | 34.5 ug/L | 2000 ug/L |
| Nickel | 1.8 ug/L | — |
| Sodium | 32 mg/L | — |
| Escherichia coli (E. coli) | 0 | 0 |
| Total Coliform | 0 | — |
| Hardness | 182 mg/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
14 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Little Bear Water Company — Soledad, 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 May 2007resolved
- Treatment technique violationHealth-based1 violation on record · most recent Jan 20251 open
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗