CALIFORNIA / TULARE COUNTY
Earlimart
- Population (2020)
- 7,679
- Water cut
- May 2020
- Cause
- infrastructure
- Where
- 35.88°N, 119.27°W
What happened, and when
Every dated water event the register holds for Earlimart, newest first, each with the sources that document it.
- Ran dryon the card
Ran dry: what happened
In late May 2020 the roughly 50-year-old Mary Ann Avenue well of the Earlimart Public Utility District, one of the town's five, stopped pumping after its casing failed, and homes and businesses lost water intermittently. The district restored flow by switching on a standby well the state had ordered off in 2018 for 1,2,3-TCP contamination, and a sample showed the chemical at about twice the legal limit. Regulators issued a boil-water notice for eleven days because bacteria could have entered the depressurised system; most residents were not told the replacement source was contaminated. Another aging well failed in July 2026, leaving residents with little or no water for days.
- The Fresno Bee (via Fresnoland): Do you live in Earlimart? Here's what you need to know about the water (July 8, 2020)
- Earlimart Public Utility District (via Earlimart School District): Cancellation of boil water notice (June 8, 2020)
- ABC30 Fresno: Earlimart residents go with little water pressure for days (July 23, 2026)