Drinking water quality · 2023
· Verified
· PWSID CA5410015
What's in Tulare, City of — Tulare, Ca, CA tap water
1 contaminant in Tulare, City of — Tulare, Ca, CA's water sat at or above a federal limit, led by Arsenic at 1.1x the limit.
- !1 contaminant at or above a federal limit — worst is Arsenic at 1.1x
- !10 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 17 never appear in this report
- ✓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.
- −14 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 →What to worry about
- Arsenic1.1× the federal limit0–11 ug/L · limit 10 ug/L
A known human carcinogen; long-term exposure is linked to skin, bladder, and lung cancer.
Higher than 95% of CA systems that report it · higher than 95% of U.S. systems
+20 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | 0–7.9 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Chlorine | 0.1–1.82 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Fluoride | 0–1.4 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Gross Alpha | 0–5.2 pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| TTHM | 0–20 ug/L | 80 ug/L |
| Combined Radium | 0–0.698 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| DBCP | 0–12 ng/L | 200 ng/L |
| HAA5 | 0–3 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Sulfate | 3.5–17 mg/L | — |
| Aluminum | 0–1.1 mg/L | — |
| Calcium | 0–24 mg/L | — |
| Chromium, Hexavalent | 0.05–2.8 ug/L | — |
| Lead | 0.0 mg/L | 0.015 mg/L |
| Magnesium | 0–1.8 mg/L | — |
| Sodium | 19–110 mg/L | — |
| Alkalinity | 53–140 mg/L | — |
| Bicarbonate | 27–120 mg/L | — |
| Hardness | 4.4–68 mg/L | — |
| pH | 7.1–9.3 | — |
| 1,2,3-TCP | 0–0.015 ng/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
17 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Tulare, City of — Tulare, 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-based6 violations on record · most recent Sep 2014resolved
Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗