Burlando Heights Mutual Water Co., CA
Above the federal action level
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 96 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. In the most recent monitoring period, more than 10% of the sampled homes measured above 15 ppb. Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead for drinking and cooking now, and test your own tap.
Burlando Heights Mutual Water Co. at a glance
Burlando Heights Mutual Water Co. serves about 44 people through 41 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Kern County, California. EPA system ID: CA1500336; phone on file: 760-549-3732. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 96 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Burlando Heights Mutual Water Co. is 96 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 96 ppb over 15 |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1.1 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. Burlando Heights Mutual Water Co.'s 96 ppb sits at the 100th percentile in California and the 100th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Kern County
165 other systems share Kern County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Burlando Heights Mutual Water Co.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Cws - Bakersfield | 268,129 | 2.8 ppb |
| Bakersfield, City Of | 171,108 | 1.3 ppb |
| Delano, City Of | 51,428 | 0 (not detected) |
| Oildale Mwc | 45,315 | 0 (not detected) |
| Indian Wells Valley W.D. | 41,474 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tejon Castac Wd - I5 & Laval Rd | 38,125 | 0 (not detected) |
| Antelope Valley E Kern Wtr Agy-Rosamond | 37,634 | - |
| Vaughn Wc Inc | 37,189 | 0 (not detected) |
| East Niles Csd | 32,517 | 1.4 ppb |
| Cws - North Garden | 27,634 | 4.2 ppb |
Next steps for Kernville, CA
Use a filter certified to NSF/ANSI 53 for lead on the tap you drink and cook from, now, before you test. Then test your own tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Burlando Heights Mutual Water Co. whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1785 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
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. Size matters more than most people expect: small vs large water systems.