Beaumont Cherry Valley Wd, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 7.8 ppb (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. 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.
Beaumont Cherry Valley Wd at a glance
Beaumont Cherry Valley Wd serves about 66,841 people through 22,214 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Riverside County, California. EPA system ID: CA3310002; phone on file: 951-845-9581. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Beaumont Cherry Valley Wd's lead record
That is up 7.8 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Beaumont Cherry Valley Wd is 7.8 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.8 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Beaumont Cherry Valley Wd compares
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. Beaumont Cherry Valley Wd's 7.8 ppb sits at the 96th percentile in California and the 96th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
92 other systems share Riverside County; 2 of them have a higher latest lead result than Beaumont Cherry Valley Wd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern Municipal Wd | 659,923 | 2.8 ppb |
| Riverside, City Of | 302,776 | 1 ppb |
| Coachella Vwd: Cove Community | 270,000 | 0 (not detected) |
| Elsinore Valley Mwd | 169,455 | 1.3 ppb |
| Corona, City Of | 169,380 | 1.8 ppb |
| Rancho California Water District | 146,147 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jurupa Community Sd | 134,638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Indio Water Authority | 89,137 | 0 (not detected) |
| Western Mwd | 87,955 | 1.3 ppb |
| Desert Water Agency | 75,588 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Beaumont, 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 Beaumont Cherry Valley Wd 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.