Arbuckle Public Utility District, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2022-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Arbuckle Public Utility District at a glance
Arbuckle Public Utility District serves about 3,251 people through 1,030 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Colusa County, California. EPA system ID: CA0610001; phone on file: 530-476-2054. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Arbuckle Public Utility District is 1.1 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 1.1 ppb |
Where this result ranks
Of the 2,884 California systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 30 are over 15 ppb right now and 215 have gone over at some point. Arbuckle Public Utility District's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 48th percentile in California and the 33rd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
8 other systems share Colusa County; 4 of them have a higher latest lead result than Arbuckle Public Utility District. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Colusa | 6,675 | 6.8 ppb |
| City Of Williams | 5,538 | 0 (not detected) |
| Maxwell Public Utility District | 1,175 | 0.98 ppb |
| Colusa Co. Wwd #1 - Grimes | 512 | 5.77 ppb |
| Colusa Co. Service Area #1-Century Ranch | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colusa Co. Wwd #2 - Princeton | 382 | 1.3 ppb |
| Del Oro Wc - Arbuckle District | 185 | 0 (not detected) |
| Colusa Co. Service Area #2-Stonyford | 160 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Look up your address in Arbuckle Public Utility District's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Arbuckle Public Utility District whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.