Domestic Wells and State Small Water Systems

Written By CWC Comms

Citations and References

  1. Monterey County does regulate state (5-14 connections) and local (2-4 connections) small water systems to some extent and maintain a list of which ones are out of compliance. But there's not really any strict enforcement. See County of Monterey Health Department, State and Local (Small Water Systems), https://www.countyofmonterey.gov/government/departments-a-h/health/environmental-health/drinking-water-protection/state-and-local (last updated Jun. 14, 2024).

  2. State Water Resources Control Board, 2021 Drinking Water Needs Assessment, Apr. 2021, https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/needs/2021_needs_assessment.pdf (estimating that about half of state small water systems and nearly a third of domestic wells are at high risk of exceeding healthy drinking water standards, due to the likelihood of contaminants in groundwater).

  3. Cal. Health & Saf. Code § 116275(n); Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64214.

  4. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64211.

  5. Department of Water Resources, Wells,  https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Groundwater-Management/Wells (last visited Jun. 26, 2024).

  6. Cal. Health & Saf. Code § 116340(a); Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, §§ 64211-64217 (regulatory requirements for State Small Water Systems).

  7. Water systems included under the definition of a “Small Public Water System”, over which LPA’s have authority, https://www.amadorgov.org/home/showpublisheddocument/10846/635219509683530000; Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64211.

  8. State Water Resources Control Board, Strategy for State Small Water Systems, Domestic Wells and Other Self-Supplied Communities, https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/safer/ssws_dw.html (last updated Mar. 16, 2023).

  9. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64213(a).

  10. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64213(a).

  11. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64213(a).

  12. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64217.

  13. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64212(a).

  14. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64212(a).

  15. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64212(b).

  16. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64212(b).

  17. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64212(b).

  18. State Water Resources Control Board, Groundwater Fact Sheet Benzene, https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/docs/coc_benzene.pdf (last updated Oct. 2017).

  19. State Water Resources Control Board, Groundwater Fact Sheet MTBE, https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/docs/coc_mtbe.pdf (last updated Oct. 2017).

  20. State Water Resources Control Board, Groundwater Fact Sheet PCE, https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/docs/coc_pce.pdf (last updated Oct. 2017).

  21. State Water Resources Control Board, Groundwater Fact Sheet TCE, https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/gama/docs/coc_tce.pdf (last updated Oct. 2017).

  22. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 22, § 64213(b).

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