Bonadelle Ranchos No. 2 Mutual Water Co, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 6 ppb (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.
Bonadelle Ranchos No. 2 Mutual Water Co at a glance
Bonadelle Ranchos No. 2 Mutual Water Co serves about 89 people through 23 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Madera County, California. EPA system ID: CA2000529; phone on file: 559-994-9449. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Lead results over time
That is up 6 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Bonadelle Ranchos No. 2 Mutual Water Co is 30 ppb across 9 monitoring periods, 2 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 29 ppb over 15 |
| 2021 | 30 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 6 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. Bonadelle Ranchos No. 2 Mutual Water Co's 6 ppb sits at the 94th percentile in California and the 93rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
67 other systems share Madera County; 5 of them have a higher latest lead result than Bonadelle Ranchos No. 2 Mutual Water Co. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Madera | 66,560 | 3 ppb |
| Chowchilla City Water Dept | 13,916 | 0 (not detected) |
| Riverstone/Rootcreek Water District | 10,276 | 1.2 ppb |
| Madera Valley Water Company | 6,524 | 0 (not detected) |
| Yosemite Spring Park Util Co | 5,300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tesoro Viejo Master Mwc, Inc. | 4,660 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cal Am - Oakhurst | 3,710 | 5 ppb |
| Valley State Prison | 3,151 | 0 (not detected) |
| Madera Co Md10a-Madera Ranchos | 3,072 | 5.4 ppb |
| Cal Am - Bass Lake | 3,066 | 2 ppb |
Next steps for Madera, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Madera, 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 Bonadelle Ranchos No. 2 Mutual Water Co 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. Why an old exceedance still matters: over the limit before, under it now.