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Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power

Serves Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Culver City and 4 more places, Los Angeles County, CA · 7,751,132 people served

Federal records show 1 health-based violation and no monitoring/reporting issues for Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power in the last ten years. The most serious issue in this window was a resolved Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule violation.

  • CA1910067
  • LOS ANGELES
  • CA
  • 7,751,132 served

System profile

Source water Surface water
ZIP 90012
EPA system ID CA1910067

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Health-based violations, last 10 years
1
Resolved
1
Unresolved
0
Any acute record
No
Monitoring issues, last 10 years
0

Key facts

  • Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power draws water from 50 wells and 4 surface water intakes (4 of them for emergency, seasonal or other part-time use).
  • Most recent formal enforcement: compliance order (no penalty) by California, February 2018.
  • Record on file since 1992, with 4 health-based violations before October 19, 2016.
  • Lead pipe inventory: 0 lead and 0 unknown out of 744,960 service lines.

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Health-based violations

Since October 2016

Violation data reflects EPA records through March 2026. For the most current status, visit the EPA ECHO database.

Contaminant Rule family Start date Status Acute
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 120 Jan 1, 2018 Resolved No

Full record since 1992

EPA's records for Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power go back to 1992. Before October 19, 2016 they list 4 health-based violations (4 resolved) and 2 monitoring or reporting violations.

Violations that began in Health-based Monitoring and reporting
1990s 2 0
2010 to October 18, 2016 2 2
October 19, 2016 to 2019 1 0

Most recent health-based violation before October 19, 2016: Groundwater Rule, began January 2016, Resolved.

Show all 4 health-based violations before October 19, 2016
Contaminant Start date Status
Groundwater Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Jan 1, 2016 Resolved
Total Coliform (acute)
Contaminant limit exceeded
 Jun 1, 2014 Resolved
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Jun 1, 1993 Resolved
Surface Water Treatment Rule
Treatment technique failure
 Jan 1, 1992 Resolved

Enforcement actions

California regulators took 7 formal enforcement actions against Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power between 1992 and 2018. The most recent was a compliance order (no penalty) in February 2018.

Date By Action Violations covered
Feb 26, 2018 California Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation (1 health-based): Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Jun 16, 2016 California Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
Apr 20, 2016 California Compliance order (no penalty) 2 violations (1 health-based): Groundwater Rule
Aug 6, 2014 California Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation (1 health-based): Total Coliform
Jul 20, 1993 California Signed compliance agreement 1 violation (1 health-based): Surface Water Treatment Rule
Jun 5, 1992 California Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation (1 health-based): Surface Water Treatment Rule
May 20, 1992 California Compliance order (no penalty) 1 violation (1 health-based): Surface Water Treatment Rule

What the violations mean

Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule

1 incident

The system failed required surface water treatment or filtration standards

Untreated or inadequately treated surface water can contain bacteria and viruses

Where the water comes from

Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power draws water from 50 wells and 4 surface water intakes (4 of them for emergency, seasonal or other part-time use). It also buys water from Metropolitan Water Dist. of So. Cal. It also has an interim connection to Burbank-City, Water Dept. 3 other community water systems buy water from Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power. 3 other public water systems have emergency connections to Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power.

Buys water from

Emergency or part-time connections to

Community systems that buy water from it

Annual water quality report

Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power must give its customers an annual water quality report (Consumer Confidence Report) by July 1, with the levels its tests found in the previous year.

Systems serving 10,000 or more people must mail or deliver the report to every customer, and from 2027 they must send it twice a year.

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Testing your own water

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