Ccwd - Sheep Ranch, CA
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 2.03 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. 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
Ccwd - Sheep Ranch serves about 89 people through 47 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Calaveras County, California. EPA system ID: CA0510004; phone on file: 209-754-3316. 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 up 2.03 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2021. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Ccwd - Sheep Ranch is 2.03 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 2.03 ppb |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 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. Ccwd - Sheep Ranch's 2.03 ppb sits at the 79th percentile in California and the 73rd nationally (higher means more lead).
Nearby utilities
18 other systems share Calaveras County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Ccwd - Sheep Ranch. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Ccwd - Ebbetts Pass | 11,545 | 1.85 ppb |
| Ccwd - Jenny Lind | 9,861 | 0 (not detected) |
| Calaveras Pud | 6,286 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ccwd - Copper Cove | 5,187 | 1.76 ppb |
| Blue Lake Springs Mut Wtr | 4,822 | 15 ppb |
| Union Public Utility District | 4,774 | 0 (not detected) |
| Angels, City Of | 3,836 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ccwd - West Point | 1,043 | 4.03 ppb |
| Valley Springs Pud | 900 | 0 (not detected) |
| Snowshoe Springs Assn. | 686 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for San Andreas, CA
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; San Andreas, 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 Ccwd - Sheep Ranch 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. The action level is dropping - the 10 ppb rule from 2027.