Broadview Terrace Mutual Water Company, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.9 ppb (monitoring period 2023-2025). 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.
Who runs the water here
Broadview Terrace Mutual Water Company serves about 498 people through 178 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: CA2000521; phone on file: 559-760-4119. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
That is up 1.7 ppb from 1.2 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Broadview Terrace Mutual Water Company is 2.9 ppb across 5 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2022 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 2.8 ppb |
How Broadview Terrace Mutual Water Company 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. Broadview Terrace Mutual Water Company's 2.9 ppb sits at the 84th percentile in California and the 80th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
67 other systems share Madera County; 18 of them have a higher latest lead result than Broadview Terrace Mutual Water Company. 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 |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Oakhurst, 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 Broadview Terrace Mutual Water Company 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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.