2024 Long Beach Drinking Water Report Now Available
Published on July 11, 2025
Contact: Joy Contreras
Public Information Officer
Phone: (562) 355-1201
Email: joy.contreras@lbutilities.org
2024 Long Beach Drinking Water Quality Report Now Available
Long Beach Utilities customers are encouraged to learn about the city's exceptional drinking water quality
Pictured: Long Beach Utilities Lab Analyst, Yeny, is testing water samples for ammonia nitrogen
LONG BEACH, CA — The Long Beach Utilities Department (LBUD) is pleased to share Long Beach tap water continues to meet all drinking water standards set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the California Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB).
"Every year, the Long Beach Board of Utilities Commissioners is proud to demonstrate our commitment to ensuring our community has access to safe, clean and reliable drinking water,” says President Gina Rushing Maguire, Board of Utilities Commissioners. “This report transparently demonstrates the ongoing effort our city makes to ensure this precious resource is not taken for granted.”
Released on July 1, the Long Beach Utilities Department Consumer Confidence Report provides information and data on Long Beach drinking water sources, treatment methods and results from drinking water tests performed from January 1, 2024, to December 1, 2024; the Safe Drinking Water Act requires all public water systems to publish Consumer Confidence Reports annually. The LBUD Consumer Confidence Report highlights LBUD’s data from over 60,000 drinking water tests to demonstrate to its customers that Long Beach drinking water meets or exceeds all federal and state water quality regulations. Customers can visit LBUtilities.org/waterquality to download the report in English, Spanish, Khmer, and Tagalog.
“As the department continues preparing for a climate-resilient future, this report shows in detail, the intensive water treatment activities we conduct annually to ensure we’re delivering safe, clean and reliable drinking water to the Long Beach community. We value the community’s trust and invest heavily into our drinking water system to maintain it,” says Anatole Falagán, General Manager of Long Beach Utilities.
In 2024, 60 percent of Long Beach’s potable water needs were met by local groundwater supplies. The remaining 40 percent was met by purchased imported surface water from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD).
Long Beach’s groundwater is sourced from the Central Basin groundwater aquifer and treated to state and federal drinking water standards at the Long Beach Groundwater Treatment Plant. After the groundwater is treated to state and federal standards, it is mixed with imported water and distributed to 90,000 water homes and businesses throughout the city. The Long Beach Groundwater Treatment Plant operates 24-hours a day, 7-days a week. A team of accredited staff monitors and treats 32 million gallons of locally pumped groundwater each day. The Groundwater Treatment Plant hosts four California Environmental Laboratory Accreditation laboratories as a Certified Water Quality Laboratory; each is dedicated to testing water quality throughout the year.
To learn more about the 2024 drinking water quality results, the 2024 CCR is now online and available in Spanish, Khmer, and Tagalog at LBUtilities.org/waterquality. Customers that would prefer to receive a hard copy of the CCR report, may contact the Long Beach Utilities Department Laboratory Services Manager at (562) 570-2479.
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