Drinking water quality · 2023
· Verified
· PWSID CA1910065
What's in Long Beach Utilities Department — Long Beach, Ca, CA tap water
Only 9 of 27 core regulated contaminants were reported for Long Beach Utilities Department — Long Beach, Ca, CA. What was measured is clean — but most of the picture is missing.
- !9 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 18 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
- −16 core regulated contaminants never reported (9/27)
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 →+25 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha | 0–5 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| Copper | 265 ug/L | 1300 ug/L |
| Fluoride | 0.72 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Arsenic | 1.5 ug/L | 10 ug/L |
| Barium | 110 ug/L | 2000 ug/L |
| Nitrate | 0.37 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| NDMA | 7.4 ng/L | 3 ng/L |
| Aluminum | 94 ug/L | 600 ug/L |
| Germanium | 0.5 ug/L | — |
| Lithium | 22.75 ug/L | — |
| Manganese | 1.9 ug/L | — |
| N-ethyl perfluorooctanesulfonamidoacetic acid (NEtFOSAA) | Not detected ng/L | — |
| N-methyl perfluorooctanesulfonamidoacetic acid (NMeFOSAA) | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluorododecanoic acid (PFDoA) | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluoroheptanesulfonic acid (PFHpS) | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluoropentanesulfonic acid (PFPeS) | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluorotetradecanoic acid (PFTeDA) | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluorotridecanoic acid (PFTrDA) | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluoroundecanoic acid (PFUnA) | Not detected ng/L | — |
| PFAS | Not detected ng/L | — |
| PFBA | Not detected ng/L | — |
| PFOA | Not detected ng/L | 4 ng/L |
| Turbidity | Not detected NTU | 1 NTU |
| Uranium | 0–3 pCi/L | 0.43 pCi/L |
What this report doesn't tell you
18 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Long Beach Utilities Department — Long Beach, 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.