Cal Am Water Company - Toro, CA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 13 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. Under the current 15 ppb rule this is not an exceedance, but it is above the 10 ppb action level that takes over in Nov 2027. Test your own tap; filter if your result shows lead.
About Cal Am Water Company - Toro
Cal Am Water Company - Toro serves about 1,442 people through 437 service connections, which makes it a small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Monterey County, California. EPA system ID: CA2710021; phone on file: 831-646-3241. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Every lead result on file
That is up 12 ppb from 1 ppb in the period ending 2022. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Cal Am Water Company - Toro is 13 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 1 ppb |
| 2019 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2016 | 4 ppb |
How Cal Am Water Company - Toro 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. Cal Am Water Company - Toro's 13 ppb sits at the 99th percentile in California and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
155 other systems share Monterey County; 1 of them has a higher latest lead result than Cal Am Water Company - Toro. 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 Pacific Grove, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Pacific Grove, 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 Cal Am Water Company - Toro 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. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.