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3/4/2025
Sarah Thiessen
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Wednesday, March 5 2025 833 am PST updated Monday, March 10 211 pm EDT
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Humboldt County - McKinleyville Community Services District
Redwood National Forest - Is California's treasure under threat?
Editor's note of correction Monday March 10 2025 211 pm EDT
In our original article, we ran Earthjustice response to the Mar 1 2025 Executive Order "Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production". As the Executive Order does not mention a total forest area intended for logging, we have retracted the Earthjustice estimate of 280 million acres of National Forest and Bureau of Land Management Forest. WaterToday has received a statement from Earthjustice, to be published in a follow-up article.
McKinleyville is the fastest growing community on the North Coast of California, situated on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The population of just over 17 thousand is a 20-minute drive from a World Heritage Site, the Redwood National Park, an International Biosphere Reserve, according to the National Park website, "protecting half of the world's old growth redwoods."
These ancient trees are thousands of years old, the largest of them more than 370 ft high. To put this in perspective, that's five storeys taller than the Statue of Liberty. These trees play an important role in the water cycle - they help to take water and moisture from rains and fog, that is then released into streams. These trees use their roots to trap sediment to improve the water quality.
Earthjustice responds to Executive Order to immediately expand logging, here.
Editor's note of correction -
Groundwater purchased from Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District
Potable water supplied to the residents of McKinleyville is purchased from another licensed drinking water facility in California, the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District in Eureka. Raw water is sourced from groundwater wells in North Coast watershed Region 1, treated by the water wholesaler and piped to McKinleyville under the Mad River.
Drinking Water Facility Profile: McKinleyville Community Services District
Compliance Status: Enforcement Priority: No violation identified
Owner: local government
Location: McKinleyville, CA
County: Humboldt
Active Permit: CA1210016
System Type: community water system
Population Served: 16900
Watershed: North Coastal Region 1
Source: groundwater purchased
Admin Contact: Patrick Kaspari 707-839-3251
Latest Compliance Inspections: Sanitary survey, complete: November 8, 2023 (State)
Significant Deficiencies in No deficiencies or recommendations noted
The following information gathered from federal EPA pertains to the quarter ending Sep 30 2024 (data last refreshed on EPA database Jan 11, 2025)
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Non-compliant inspections
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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with Significant Violations
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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Informal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 yrs)
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Formal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 years)
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3 out of 12
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0 out of 12
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1
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Violations and non-compliance
Monitoring and Reporting Violation - Lead and Copper Rule - Noted October 1, 2022 - June 20, 2023 resolved
*Note that drinking water information provided in this report is aggregated from the federal EPA database, state resources and local government sources where available.
EPA publishes violation and enforcement data quarterly, based on the inspection reports of the previous quarter. Water systems, states and EPA take up to three months to verify this data is accurate and complete.
Specific questions about your local water supply should be directed to the facility.
The EPA safe drinking water facilities data available to the public presents what is known to the government based upon the most recently available information for more than one million regulated facilities. EPA and states inspect a percentage of facilities each year, but many facilities, particularly smaller ones, may not have received a recent inspection. It is possible that facilities do have violations that have not yet been discovered, thus are shown as compliant in the system.
EPA cannot positively state that facilities without violations shown in ECHO are necessarily fully compliant with environmental laws. Additionally, some violations at smaller facilities do not need to be reported from the states to EPA. If ECHO shows a recent inspection and the facility is shown with no violations identified, users of the ECHO site can be more confident that the facility is in compliance with federal programs.
The compliance status of smaller facilities that have not had recent inspections or review by EPA or the states may be unknown or only available via state data systems.
See yellow tags on the front page map for boil water advisories, red for do not consume.
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