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Valley Estates Poa, Inc.

What EPA’s and California’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
386 people
Connections
117
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Weldon, CA
County
Kern
Owner
Private
Hardness
Hard
The ZIP code it serves

93283

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Uranium, above the health goal. 1 health-based violation since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Uranium, nitrate, fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): California’s own results, samples taken from March 18, 2020 to Aug. 13, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Uranium

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

10.1ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2025

2025, one sample: 9.1 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 10.1 ppb, in 2024: below EPA’s legal limit of 30 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 9.1 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 13.7 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

3.1ppm

Highest sample; found in 14 of 14

2025 average: 2.6 ppm

The highest sample, in 2025, was 3.1 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. That was also the latest year on file, and its four samples averaged 2.6 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 5.2 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.77ppm

Highest yearly average, 2021 to 2024

2024 average: 0.7 ppm

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.77 ppm, in 2021, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. Its highest single sample was 0.78 ppm. In 2024, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 0.7 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.87 ppm, in 2018.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Chromium (total)
  • Lead
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

None of the filters TapBuff has checked so far carry these claims. Search the certifier listings for the claim above.

Compare five-year costs

Hardness

Hard, typically 158 mg/L (9.2 grains per gallon), across 2 sampling points, 2021 to 2024.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 9.2 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?California water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

Contaminant or ruleTypePeriodMeasuredStatus
Revised Total Coliform RuleE. coli was confirmed in the water system.EPA: Maximum Contaminant Level Violation, E. coli (RTCR)Jan. 1, 2017 to Jan. 31, 2017—Resolved
Health-based violations only. Resolved and archived mean the utility returned to compliance or the state closed the record.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Uranium, nitrate, fluoride, arsenic, chromium (total) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are California’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Valley Estates Poa, Inc.’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; California’s results run from March 18, 2020 to Aug. 13, 2025.

Testing your own tap

Valley Estates Poa, Inc.’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab California certifies.

The 3 labs California certifies closest to the area Valley Estates Poa, Inc. serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC dba BC Laboratories, Inc.

    Bakersfield, CA · about 44 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity

    (661) 327-4911

  • Zalco Laboratories, Inc.

    Bakersfield, CA · about 44 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (661) 395-0539

  • BSK Associates - Bakersfield Analytical Laboratory

    Bakersfield, CA · about 50 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (661) 327-0671

All 145 certified labs for California

Sources

PWSID CA1500478. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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