Berry Creek Community Service Dist, 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.
Berry Creek Community Service Dist at a glance
Berry Creek Community Service Dist serves about 28 people through 8 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Butte County, California. EPA system ID: CA0400016; phone on file: 530-613-4166. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Lead results over time
Against the period ending 2018 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Berry Creek Community Service Dist is 0 ppb across 2 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How Berry Creek Community Service Dist 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. Berry Creek Community Service Dist's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 2nd percentile in California and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
41 other systems share Butte County; 14 of them have a higher latest lead result than Berry Creek Community Service Dist. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cal-Water Service Co.-Chico | 110,473 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Feather W&P - Miners Ranch | 22,638 | 0 (not detected) |
| Thermalito Water & Sewer Dist | 12,209 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cal-Water Service Co.-Oroville | 11,047 | 0.9 ppb |
| Del Oro Water Co.-Paradise Pines | 10,738 | 0.54 ppb |
| Paradise Irrigation District | 9,114 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Gridley | 7,269 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Biggs | 2,060 | 6.91 ppb |
| Durham Irrigation District | 1,581 | 0.74 ppb |
| Del Oro Water Co.-Lime Saddle Marina | 954 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Berry Creek Community Service Dist'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 Berry Creek Community Service Dist 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. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.