Calera Canyon Heights Hoa, CA
Exceeded the action level in the past
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 1 ppb (monitoring period 2026-2026). 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.
Who runs the water here
Calera Canyon Heights Hoa serves about 40 people through 17 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Monterey County, California. EPA system ID: CA2700523; phone on file: 925-596-0016. 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 down 3.2 ppb from 4.2 ppb in the period ending 2025. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Calera Canyon Heights Hoa is 31.3 ppb across 13 monitoring periods, 1 of them over the 15 ppb action level.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 ppb |
| 2025 | 4.2 ppb |
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2024 | 1.2 ppb |
| 2023 | 2.4 ppb |
| 2023 | 0.7 ppb |
| 2022 | 12.2 ppb over 10 |
| 2022 | 1.6 ppb |
| 2021 | 1.9 ppb |
| 2021 | 31.3 ppb over 15 |
| 2020 | 3 ppb |
| 2017 | 6 ppb |
| 2017 | 0 (not detected) |
Where this result ranks
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. Calera Canyon Heights Hoa's 1 ppb sits at the 69th percentile in California and the 50th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in Monterey County
155 other systems share Monterey County; 73 of them have a higher latest lead result than Calera Canyon Heights Hoa. 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) |
Your move
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Salinas, 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 Calera Canyon Heights Hoa whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1736 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. The lead result guide covers how utilities pick the homes they sample. More in what a past exceedance means today.