Berry Dr Ws #02, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2024). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest result is under the action level, but this system has gone over 15 ppb before. Lead comes from pipes, not the source water, so a home with a lead service line can still be exposed. Test your own tap.
About Berry Dr Ws #02
Berry Dr Ws #02 serves about 40 people through 19 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Monterey County, California. EPA system ID: CA2701897; phone on file: 831-809-7718. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (0.8 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Berry Dr Ws #02 is 24 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0.8 ppb |
| 2020 | 24 ppb over 15 |
| 2017 | 5.5 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. Berry Dr Ws #02's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 5th percentile in California and the 2nd nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
155 other systems share Monterey County; 90 of them have a higher latest lead result than Berry Dr Ws #02. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cal Am Water Company - Monterey | 128,928 | 1 ppb |
| Cwsc Salinas | 114,286 | 1.2 ppb |
| Alco Water Service | 56,253 | 0 (not detected) |
| Marina Coast Water District | 38,918 | 0 (not detected) |
| Soledad, City Of | 19,732 | 0 (not detected) |
| Greenfield, City Of | 18,967 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cwsc King City | 14,046 | 0 (not detected) |
| Gonzales, City Of | 8,333 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cwsc Salinas Hills | 7,733 | 0.9 ppb |
| Castroville Community Services District | 7,515 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Salinas, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Salinas, 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 Berry Dr Ws #02 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. More in what a past exceedance means today.