City Of Buckeye - Valencia Town Division, AZ
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (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. 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
City Of Buckeye - Valencia Town Division serves about 30,377 people through 11,355 service connections, which makes it a large system under EPA's size classes. It is privately owned and draws groundwater, in Maricopa County, Arizona. EPA system ID: AZ0407078; phone on file: 623-349-6145. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
City Of Buckeye - Valencia Town Division's lead record
Against the period ending 2021 (0 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for City Of Buckeye - Valencia Town Division is 0 ppb across 3 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2021 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2018 | 0 (not detected) |
How City Of Buckeye - Valencia Town Division compares
Of the 730 Arizona systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0 ppb; 9 are over 15 ppb right now and 58 have gone over at some point. City Of Buckeye - Valencia Town Division's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 65th percentile in Arizona and the 39th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Neighbouring systems
99 other systems share Maricopa County; 24 of them have a higher latest lead result than City Of Buckeye - Valencia Town Division. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Phoenix City Of | 1,695,000 | 2.74 ppb |
| Mesa City Of | 466,000 | 5.01 ppb |
| Gilbert, Town Of | 247,600 | 0 (not detected) |
| Chandler City Of | 247,328 | 1.4 ppb |
| Scottsdale City Of | 241,361 | 2.3 ppb |
| Glendale City Of | 234,766 | 2.11 ppb |
| Peoria City Of | 187,676 | 0 (not detected) |
| Tempe City Of | 165,000 | 4.4 ppb |
| Epcor - Agua Fria | 128,040 | 0 (not detected) |
| Avondale City Of | 96,130 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in City Of Buckeye - Valencia Town Division'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 City Of Buckeye - Valencia Town Division 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. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. A zero today does not rule out a jump later - the rules are tightening in 2027.