Blythe - Hidden Beaches, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 0.7 ppb (monitoring period 2021-2023). 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.
Blythe - Hidden Beaches at a glance
Blythe - Hidden Beaches serves about 399 people through 126 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 Riverside County, California. EPA system ID: CA3301630; phone on file: 760-922-6611. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Blythe - Hidden Beaches's lead record
That is down 3.3 ppb from 4 ppb in the period ending 2020. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Blythe - Hidden Beaches is 4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2020 | 4 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
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. Blythe - Hidden Beaches's 0.7 ppb sits at the 67th percentile in California and the 46th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Riverside County
92 other systems share Riverside County; 30 of them have a higher latest lead result than Blythe - Hidden Beaches. 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) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Blythe, 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 Blythe - Hidden Beaches 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.