Channel Islands Beach Csd, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Who runs the water here
Channel Islands Beach Csd serves about 5,011 people through 1,866 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Ventura County, California. EPA system ID: CA5610039; phone on file: 805-985-6021. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Channel Islands Beach Csd's lead record
Against the period ending 2022 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Channel Islands Beach Csd is 5.4 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2022 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2019 | 5.4 ppb |
How Channel Islands Beach Csd 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. Channel Islands Beach Csd's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 49th percentile in California and the 35th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
67 other systems share Ventura County; 6 of them have a higher latest lead result than Channel Islands Beach Csd. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oxnard Water Dept | 200,232 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ventura Water Department | 112,285 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ventura Wwd No. 8 - Simi Valley | 94,736 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cal American Water Co | 66,809 | 3 ppb |
| City Of Thousand Oaks Water Department | 54,770 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camarillo Water Dept | 47,701 | 0 (not detected) |
| Golden State Water Company - Simi Valley | 45,086 | 6 ppb |
| Ventura Cwwd No. 1 - Moorpark | 35,514 | 0 (not detected) |
| Camrosa Water District | 32,700 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Santa Paula | 31,786 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Oxnard, CA
Look up your address in Channel Islands Beach Csd's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Channel Islands Beach Csd 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. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.