Christian Encounter Ministries, CA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 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.
Christian Encounter Ministries at a glance
Christian Encounter Ministries serves about 35 people through 16 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Nevada County, California. EPA system ID: CA2900541; phone on file: 530-268-0877. Call that number and ask whether your address has a lead, galvanized or unknown service line.
Christian Encounter Ministries's lead record
That is down 4.5 ppb from 4.5 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Christian Encounter Ministries is 6.16 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 4.5 ppb |
| 2020 | 6.04 ppb |
| 2017 | 6.16 ppb |
How Christian Encounter Ministries 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. Christian Encounter Ministries's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 3rd percentile in California and the 1st nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Other water systems in Nevada County
20 other systems share Nevada County; 11 of them have a higher latest lead result than Christian Encounter Ministries. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Truckee-Donner Pud, Main | 36,730 | 3.9 ppb |
| Nevada Id - E. George, Banner Mountain | 17,154 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Id - Loma Rica | 14,072 | 0.77 ppb |
| Nevada Id - Lake Wildwood | 9,108 | 0 (not detected) |
| Nevada Id - Lake Of Pines | 6,870 | 0 (not detected) |
| City Of Grass Valley | 4,947 | 0.88 ppb |
| City Of Nevada City | 3,148 | 0 (not detected) |
| Washington Water District | 330 | 41.4 ppb |
| Creekside Village | 300 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ananda Village | 226 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Grass Valley, CA
Look up your address in Christian Encounter Ministries'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 Christian Encounter Ministries 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.