Candlelight Village Mutual Water Co., CA
Above the new 10 ppb level coming in 2027
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 12 ppb (monitoring period 2022-2024). 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 Candlelight Village Mutual Water Co.
Candlelight Village Mutual Water Co. serves about 75 people through 35 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in El Dorado County, California. EPA system ID: CA0900112; phone on file: 408-857-0739. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Every lead result on file
That is up 9.1 ppb from 2.9 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Candlelight Village Mutual Water Co. is 12 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 12 ppb over 10 |
| 2021 | 2.9 ppb |
| 2018 | 6.7 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. Candlelight Village Mutual Water Co.'s 12 ppb sits at the 98th percentile in California and the 98th nationally (higher means more lead).
Other water systems in El Dorado County
18 other systems share El Dorado County; 0 of them have a higher latest lead result than Candlelight Village Mutual Water Co.. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| El Dorado Id - Main | 128,408 | 0 (not detected) |
| South Tahoe Pud - Main | 30,089 | 0 (not detected) |
| Georgetown Divide Pud | 9,434 | 0 (not detected) |
| Placerville, City Of - Main | 9,224 | 0 (not detected) |
| Lukins Brothers Water Company | 3,277 | 3 ppb |
| Tahoe Keys Water Company | 1,420 | 2.5 ppb |
| Tahoe City Pud - Rubicon | 1,384 | 2.2 ppb |
| Grizzly Flats Community Servic | 1,093 | 2.5 ppb |
| Lakeside Park Association | 924 | 0 (not detected) |
| El Dorado Id - Outingdale | 478 | 0 (not detected) |
What to do in your house
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Somerset, 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 Candlelight Village 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. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. This system is in the band the 2027 10 ppb rule changes.