Water Quality
40%
of combined weighted risk
State 33% · ▲ 8 pts
Most common flagEmerging contaminants
Orange County | Public water system SAFER profile
Orange County public water systems
Failing or At-Risk
3systems
382people served (0% of total)
Not At-Risk or Not Assessed
37systems
3,197,708people served (100% of total)
includes Not Assessed systems, which are outside the SAFER assessment
Status classification
Share of listed systems, followed by the count, reported population, and funding in each status.
At-Risk8%
Not At-Risk57%
Not Assessed35%
Failing
At-Risk
Potentially At-Risk
Not At-Risk
Not Assessed
Systems
0
3
0
23
14
Population
0
382
0
886,614
2,311,094
Funding since 2017
$0
$0
$0
$12M
$41M
Key figures
40
public water systems
3,198,090
reported population
15%
serve 500 people or fewer
$53M
reported funding since 2017
System locations
Points show reported system locations. They do not represent service-area boundaries.
Each point represents one system record.
Summary
Orange County has 40 public water systems in the SAFER dataset. Of these, 3 (8%) are classified as Failing or At-Risk.
Those systems report serving 382 people. The county profile is also shaped by small systems: 6 systems serve 500 people or fewer.
14 systems are Not Assessed. These fall outside the SAFER risk assessment, so they carry no classification either way.
Reported funding since 2017 totals $53M across 7 systems. Technical assistance funding totals $6K.
System counts and reported population
Not Assessed systems make up 35% of listed systems and 72% of reported population. A few large systems account for most of that population, so a small number of systems can shift the population picture entirely. Counts and population are worth reading together.
