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City and town drinking water records

Water systems serving Bakersfield, CA

8 community water systems have a mapped service area in Bakersfield, CA. City of Bakersfield covers 37% of the area inside Bakersfield's Census boundary and reports serving 160,144 people in all.

3 of them had at least one health-based violation in the last 10 years. 1 system still has one unresolved.

4 rely mainly on groundwater and 4 on surface water, counting water bought from other systems.

Their lead service line inventories list 0 lead lines, 0 galvanized lines that must be replaced and 68,647 lines of unknown material.

Community water systems
8
Systems with a health-based violation, last 10 years
3
Systems with one unresolved
1
Lead service lines in inventories
0

Water systems serving Bakersfield

8 systems

People served is each system's own figure for its whole service area. Violation counts cover the last 10 years of EPA records.

System Area People served Main source Health-based violations, 10 years Unresolved Lead lines
City of Bakersfield Covers 37% of Bakersfield 160,144 Purchased surface water 0 0 0
CWS - Bakersfield Covers 35% of Bakersfield 267,881 Surface water 0 0 0
CWS - North Garden Mapped area inside Bakersfield 22,762 Surface water 0 0 0
Vaughn WC Inc Covers 3% of Bakersfield 37,189 Groundwater 0 0 0
Greenfield County WD Mapped area inside Bakersfield 11,590 Groundwater 12 0 0
East Niles CSD Covers 1% of Bakersfield 32,517 Purchased surface water 3 2 0
Ranchos Del Rio Mapped area inside Bakersfield 62 Groundwater 1 0 0
The Anne Sippi Clinic-Riverside Ranch Mapped area inside Bakersfield 51 Groundwater 0 0 0

Other cities and towns in Kern County

79 places

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Counties come from the counties EPA lists each system serving, matched to 2024 Census counties; where EPA lists none, from the county coded in the system's ID, its service area map, or its mailing address. A county holding at least a fifth of a system's service area map is added when at least a fifth of that map lies in those counties. Towns are the ones EPA lists and the Census places such a map covers, always inside those counties. In New England, where EPA's town names a whole Town, it is not matched to the village of the same name. A system is not listed in a county holding less than a fifth of its map, or in a county or town its map reaches when the map lies mostly outside the counties EPA lists, so a page can leave out a system that serves part of the area. Methodology and limitations