Drinking water quality · 2023

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· PWSID CA5610022

What's in Ventura River Water District — Ojai, Ca, CA tap water

C
Water quality score
79/ 100Watch

Every one of the 12 core regulated contaminants reported for Ventura River Water District — Ojai, Ca, CA came in below its federal limit.

  • !1 contaminant within 20% of a limit
  • !12 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 15 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
  • 6  health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
  • 11  core regulated contaminants never reported (12/27)

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.

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What to worry about

  • HAA590% of the federal limit
    54 ug/L · limit 60 ug/L

    Long-term exposure above the federal limit is associated with an increased cancer risk.

    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
ContaminantMeasured
Chloramine3 mg/L
TTHM55 ug/L
Copper0.5 mg/L
Turbidity0.21 NTU
Nitrate2 mg/L
Nitrate Nitrite1.6 mg/L
Gross Alpha2.22 pCi/L
Fluoride0.4 mg/L
Lead1.2 ug/L
Barium0.12 mg/L
NitriteNot detected mg/L
Boron0.6 mg/L
Lithium15 ug/L
Vanadium1 ug/L
Escherichia coli (E. coli)0
Total Coliform0
Chlorine Free0 mg/L
Chlorine Total0 mg/L
ChromiumNot detected ug/L
PFASNot detected

What this report doesn't tell you

15 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Ventura River Water District — Ojai, Ca, CA's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.

ArsenicChromiumSeleniumAntimonyCadmiumMercuryThalliumBerylliumCyanideRadiumUraniumAtrazine / simazineTetrachloroethylene (PCE)Trichloroethylene (TCE)Benzene
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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.

  • Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based
    5 violations on record · most recent Oct 2023
    resolved
  • Monitoring
    1 violation on record
    resolved

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

Source: Ventura River Water District — Ojai, 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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