Water Quality

Long Beach Utilities (formerly as the Long Beach Water Department) has been delivering a safe and dependable water supply to our residents and businesses within the City of Long Beach for over 100 years. Our skilled staff ensure that the drinking water we serve meets or exceeds all federal and state water quality standards. We perform thousands of tests each year to monitor the quality and ensure the safety of the drinking water. We are proud to provide our customers with reliable, affordable, and exceptional quality drinking water.

Long Beach Utilities received the President’s Award for Distribution System Operation from Partnership for Safe Water, a drinking water program sponsored by the American Water Works Association, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other water organizations. This award recognized Long Beach as a water supplier that continuously provides drinking water quality that surpasses regulatory requirements through distribution system optimization.

Each year, Long Beach Utilities electronically publishes its annual water quality report, otherwise known as the Consumer Confidence Report (CCR) that details how well we safeguard your drinking water. To read the 2023 report, click here(PDF, 5MB) .

If you would prefer to receive a hard copy of the CCR, please contact us at (562) 570-2479 to request a copy or visit your Long Beach Library neighborhood branch.

For questions about water quality, treatment and testing call (562) 570-2479.

2023 Water Quality Report – Testing performed in 2023, published on July 1, 2024

The Consumer Confidence Report, or CCR, is an annual drinking water quality report that federal law requires public water systems to provide our customers. Our water quality staff annually performs tens of thousands of tests and analyzes the samples for more than one hundred drinking water contaminants. We are proud to provide our customers with reliable, affordable, and exceptional quality drinking water.

• Water Quality Report in English(PDF, 5MB)
• Water Quality Report in Spanish(PDF, 7MB)
• Water Quality Report in Khmer(PDF, 5MB)
• Water Quality Report in Tagalog(PDF, 7MB)

Long Beach Non-Lead Initial Inventories, October 2024

The Long Beach Utilities Department (LBUD) has completed the first lead service line inventory, as required by U.S. EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Revisions, ahead of schedule. The deadline is October 16, 2024.

Through reviewing a comprehensive set of historical records, including field investigations notes, the LBUD has determined the City of Long Beach (City) has no lead or galvanized requiring replacement service lines in its distribution system. This includes in any privately-owned or customer-owned service lines.

To make this determination, the LBUD reviewed a host of documents, including:

• Water system records
• Construction and plumbing codes
• Permits and other existing records documenting water service line material
• Distribution system maps and drawings
• Historical records on service connections
• Meter installation records
• Historical capital improvement and master plans
• Standard operating procedures

Additionally, the LBUD successfully physically verified randomly selected water service lines in the City’s drinking water distribution system to confirm the City of Long Beach (City) has no lead or galvanized requiring replacement service lines in its distribution system.

The LBUD will continue to document service line material information obtained from normal operations and will update the initial inventory accordingly. Please review LBUD's full Non-Lead statement below:

Long Beach Utilities Non-Lead Statement - October 2024(PDF, 69KB) 
(PDF, 69KB)