Barcelona Apartments, CA

Lead detected, under the action levels

Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5.8 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2023). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.

Barcelona Apartments at a glance

Barcelona Apartments serves about 56 people through 20 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Duval County, California. EPA system ID: FL2161337; phone on file: 904-530-0057. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.

Every lead result on file

That is up 5.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Barcelona Apartments is 5.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.

Against other California systems

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. Barcelona Apartments's 5.8 ppb sits at the 93rd percentile in California and the 92nd nationally (higher means more lead).

Your move

Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Newport Beach, CA may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Barcelona Apartments 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.