Drinking water quality · 2023

· Verified

· PWSID CA4110027

What's in Westborough Water District — South San Francisco, Ca, CA tap water

C
Water quality score
77/ 100Limited data

Only 7 of 27 core regulated contaminants were reported for Westborough Water District — South San Francisco, Ca, CA. What was measured is clean — but most of the picture is missing.

  • !1 contaminant within 20% of a limit
  • !7 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 20 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
  • 0  health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
  • 19  core regulated contaminants never reported (7/27)

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

  • Chloramine92% of the federal limit
    3.69 mg/L · limit 4 mg/L

    Holds disinfection further into the pipe network, but is regulated under the same residual-disinfectant cap as chlorine.

    higher than 80% of U.S. systems

+9 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
ContaminantMeasured
HAA520 ug/L
TTHM24.6 ug/L
Fluoride0.6 mg/L
Bromate1 ug/L
Copper66.2 ug/L
NitrateNot detected mg/L
Lead0 ug/L
Giardia lamblia0.03
TOC1.5

What this report doesn't tell you

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

ArsenicColiform bacteriaTurbidityBariumChromiumSeleniumAntimonyCadmiumMercuryThalliumBerylliumCyanideRadiumGross alpha radiationUraniumAtrazine / 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.

  • Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based
    1 violation on record · most recent Jul 1998
    resolved
  • Treatment technique violationHealth-based
    1 violation on record · most recent Oct 1991
    resolved

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

Source: Westborough Water District — South San Francisco, 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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